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There’s No Place Like Home

By Melissa Mendez|2016-12-01T19:32:50-06:00May 16th, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: child safety, child welfare, foster care, identity, LGBTQ, LGBTQ youth, permanency, student blogger, trauma, well-being|

Today's Guest Blogger is Ann Rajkowski. The Mallon, Aledort & Ferrera (2002) article entitled There’s No Place Like Home: Achieving Safety, Permanency and Well-being for Lesbian and Gay Adolescents in Out-of-Home Settings discusses an exploratory study conducted on youth residing in two gay-affirming social service agencies, one in New York City and one in Los [...]

University of Minnesota student describes adoption experience

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, [...]

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May 2016

There’s No Place Like Home

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University of Minnesota student describes adoption experience