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Love on the Frontlines of Foster Care
Hi, my name is Annie. I’m 27 years old, an age I honestly didn’t think I’d ever live to become. I was placed in foster care at the age of 17, though it should’ve […]
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Free Online Training Platform Launched for Adoption and Guardianship Workers
Two federally funded training programs on adoption and guardianship competency are now available for free to help professionals involved in finding permanent homes for children who the courts have ruled cannot return to their parents. […]
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Congressional Internship for Foster Youth Forced to Go Remote
The coronavirus pandemic has affected seemingly everything, and the 20th annual congressional summer internship program for former foster youth is no exception. For the first time in the history of the Foster Youth Internship Program, […]
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Congressional Nonprofit Hires Executive Director as Pandemic Presents New Challenges
Sixteen months after the heart-breaking death of its long-time executive director, the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute has hired its next permanent leader, who inherits the challenge of steadying an organization amidst a pandemic. Nancy […]
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Feds Allow Adoption Savings To Cover Title IV-E Match Requirements
A subtle change in child welfare policy, made shortly before the world went indoors, will allow child welfare agencies to use a calculation called “adoption savings” discount on matching certain spending requirements on federal funds. […]
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Protecting Children Must Be Part of The Next Stimulus Package
The coronavirus crisis has put children in foster care – and those who need to be there – at serious risk in numerous, unnerving ways. To date, however, they and their families have barely been […]
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Our Lecture in Real Time
Just a few weeks ago, all 190 of my classmates and I joined together for our first epidemiology lecture as first year medical students at the Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. We were […]
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Shut in At Home, Foster and Adoptive Parents Look Online for Support
With coronavirus exploding in the world around them, millions of parents are discovering just how difficult long days and nights holed up indoors with kids can be. For New York foster and adoptive parents, like […]
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Child Welfare, Adoption Conference Schedule Impacted by Coronavirus Closures
March through May is generally one of the peak times to hold a child welfare conference. But the coronavirus pandemic that has cancelled schools, sporting events and even closed restaurants and non-essential businesses, has also […]
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Nonprofits Are Simultaneously Contemplating Strategy on Two Fronts
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption (DTFA) – which oversees Wendy’s Wonderful Kids, one of the nation’s most successful permanency ventures – is a decent microcosm of what’s going on in the wide community of […]