Blogs

 By Allie Long Picture this: You’re a kid. Both a little shy and a little brazen, and also a whole lot uncertain. You’re on your way to meet your new… Read more »

Welcome to our November 2019 News from the Field! This is an extension of the bottom of our newsletter. We will be providing you with some of the latest news,… Read more »

In October 2019, we released our findings from the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) project. QIC-AG was a five-year project working with eight… Read more »

A guest blog on unsealing birth certificates by Dawn Marie Williamson Scott November is National Adoption Month, which is a time to raise awareness for the incredible need for adoptive… Read more »

By Megan Morris In this research roundup, explore recent studies examining child welfare and immigration.   This Land Is Our Land: Exploring the Impact of U S Immigration Policies on… Read more »

By Allie Long In an article originally published in the December 2018 issue of the Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, social work practitioners and authors Megan Finno-Velasquez and Monica… Read more »

By Laurie Cook Heffron and Ana Hernández This article was originally published on the website Youth Circulations on October 7th, 2019. To learn more about their work, visit their website…. Read more »

This month, we are excited about the new Adopting as a Single Parent resource from Child Welfare Information Gateway and the Ethics in Social Work workshop, put together by our… Read more »

In early spring of this year, there were vague whispers of border policies shifting once again. By the time our Girasol team went south in July, the border experience that… Read more »

This month, we are excited about the upcoming workshop on family stressors. The workshop is part of our free two-part series for child welfare professionals. This series is co-hosted by… Read more »