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adoption

New York Governor Quietly Pitches Gun Violence Response That Includes Youth Justice Reform Rollbacks

12/11/2023

Governor Once Again Rejects Bill to Expand New York Parents’ Chances for Contact With Their Adopted Children 

The Preserving Family Bonds Act would have allowed a judge to determine whether biological parents could resume contact with adopted children, and the type of contact that would be permitted.

10/5/2023

Fighting for Kin: She’s a Social Worker and Foster Parent — But a Court Won’t Let Her Adopt Her Nephews

Despite laws prioritizing kin care, Minnesota officials have sided with a foster parent vying to adopt two brothers, blindsiding their aunt.

10/5/2023

Fighting for Kin: A Black Family Struggles to Unite with Two of its Youngest Members in Foster Care 

Challenges are myriad for an aunt seeking to adopt her nephews — from decades-old “attachment” theories to perceptions of courtroom body language.

Youth Services Insider

10/4/2023

Feds Announce Slate of 2023 Child Welfare Grantees

The U.S. Children’s Bureau has announced the winners of several million dollars in federal grants focused on workforce, early childhood, racial bias and inequity, and other issues late last week. 

Photo of Jessica Herrera Twitchell, congressional intern advocating for expanded post-18 support for foster youth.

8/31/2023

Child Welfare Ideas From the Experts

Congressional intern Jessica Herrera Twitchell proposes that Congress amend two federal programs for older youth in foster care.

7/27/2023

California Bans ‘Adoption Facilitators’ Known to Engage in Questionable Practices

California has outlawed the use of unlicensed adoption brokers who match prospective parents with pregnant mothers.

    4/12/2023

    In Her New Book, Transracial Adoptee and Minneapolis Author Shannon Gibney Envisions the Childhood She Lived and the One She Imagines

    The Imprint's Farrah Mina interviews author Shannon Gibney about her book “The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be.”

    Richard Barth

    3/27/2023

    We Haven’t Done Enough to Increase the Safety of Adoptions

    Rick Barth reflects on the lessons for foster care and adoptions within Roxanna Asgarian's new book, "We Were Once a Family"

    3/27/2023

    Asking the Right Questions About Adoption

    Media accounts of particularly violent and heinous crimes, such as school shootings and sniper attacks, often focus on the motivation of the perpetrators. So it was on March 26, 2018, when white adoptive parents Jennifer and Sarah Hart, with Jennifer at the wheel, drove an SUV carrying their six Black and bi-racial children off a cliff on the Pacific Coast Highway, plunging all 8 to their deaths in the rocks and ocean below.