We at the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare are pleased to announce our 16th Annual Spring Child Welfare Conference, Culturally Responsive Child Welfare Practice. Registration is now open for both on-site and webstream participants. Registration will be available through Friday, April 17, 2015. Details Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 Time: 10 AM–4:30 PM [...]
A current University of Minnesota student wrote a first-person account of her experience as a Korean adoptee. Student Leah Lancaster describes her experience as being in "No man's land" for the Minnesota Daily. "What is distinctive about being an adoptee is that you are virtually thrown into a cultural No Man's Land," writes Lancaster. "Supposedly, [...]
A recently published article in Adoption Quarterly by April Chatham-Carpenter explored the narratives that adoptive parents of internationally adopted Chinese children construct about the circumstances around their child's abandonment or relinquishment. The study was conducted to explore the story narratives that adoptive parents use, and what is included and left out in these stories. In [...]
