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About JaeRan Kim

JaeRan Kim, MSW, LISW is the Stability, Permanency and Adoption Coordinator at CASCW. JaeRan manages the Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate (PACC) program and special projects related to permanency and adoption.

May 2015

Registration now open for 2015-2016 Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate program in St. Paul and Duluth

By |2016-12-01T19:32:54-06:00May 15th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the 2015-2016 Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate program. The two cohorts for 2014-2015 will be located in the Twin Cities metro area and Duluth, MN.  Successful graduates of the PACC will be listed on a searchable database where families, agencies, and other professionals can search for adoption-competent providers. The [...]

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Russian adoption ban and its impact on children and families

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00May 14th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

Today's guest blogger is Nickie Hanson. The article I chose was from NBC News and The Associated Press titled Boy sent back to Russia, adoption ban urged.  This particular article was last updated on April 9, 2010. This particular article details the situation of a 7 year-old boy, who was put on a flight from [...]

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Black kids in white houses – transracial adoption

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00May 12th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

Today's guest blogger is Melissa Lee. The article that I read for the blog post is Black Kids in White Houses: On race, Silence and the changing American family by Jen Graves on November 8th 2008.  I found the article on www.thestranger.com/seattle by searching transracial adoptions.  The article is written about conversations that happen at [...]

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Cost of adoption

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00May 8th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: |

Today's guest blogger is Angela Shepherd. The article, “Cost of Adoption; Perspective Parents Should Go into the Experience with Their Eyes and Wallets Wide Open” was found in the U.S. News & World Report, written by Geoff Williams. October 2, 2014. The article discussed the enormous cost of adoption. It spoke to enormous fees including [...]

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Inside America’s underground market for adopted children

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00May 6th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

Today's guest blogger is Kifah Abdi.   Megan Twohey of Reuters spent eighteen months investigating the phenomena of the parents of (primarily) internationally adopted children being abandoned after coming to the United States through multiple online services. The first part of this investigation was released by the Reuters by September 9, 2013. In this article [...]

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April 2015

Perspective of an adoptee on becoming a parent

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 28th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

Today's guest blogger is Emily Shea. Juli Fraga writes of her experience being adopted and now being a biological mother in her article in The New York Times, “Adopted as a Child, Now a Mother, Finally ‘Lucky’ (February 15, 2015).” She speaks of the incredible relief and joy she feels as, for the first time [...]

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The role of gender, race and age in permanency

By |2016-12-01T19:32:55-06:00April 24th, 2015|Categories: Stability, Permanency, and Adoption|Tags: , |

Today's guest blogger is Morgan Larson. Kemp, S. P. & Bodonyi, J. M. (2002).Beyond Termination: Length of Stay and Predictors of Permanency for Legally Free Children. Child Welfare, 81(1), 58-86. Description of the article: Kemp and Bodonyi (2002) studied the length of stay and predictors of permanency within a study of 1366 legally free children [...]

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