resilience

May 2016

Microaggressions, Feelings of Difference, and Resilience Among Adopted Children with Sexual Minority Parents

By Melissa Mendez|2016-12-01T19:32:51-06:00May 9th, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: adoption, child welfare, Microaggressions, resilience, same-sex adoption, student blogger|

Today's Guest Blogger is Peter Holmlund-Fluker. Researchers from the University of Kentucky and the University of Massachusetts Amherst present the findings of their study on microaggressions experienced by preadolescent youth being raised by same-sex parents in the article, “Microaggressions, Feelings of Difference, and Resilience Among Adopted Children with Sexual Minority Parents.” Published in the September [...]

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Foster Youth Perceptions on Educational Well-Being

By Melissa Mendez|2016-12-01T19:32:51-06:00May 2nd, 2016|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: academic achievement, child welfare, education, education disparities, foster care, Fostering Connections Act, kinship care, placement instability, resilience, school mobility, well-being|

Today's Guest Blogger is Micheline Mutombo Floyd Harris. I extracted my article entitled Foster Youth Perceptions on Educational Well-Being from the Families in Society Journal. The article was published in 2015, and focuses on the educational disparities between foster care youth and youth in kinship care in the state of Vermont. The article highlights school [...]

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