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CT: Piper on Racism
An article in this month’s Christianity Today continues in the vein of a recent blog post here on “Race and Adoption” and last month’s Alliance webinar on “Transracial Adoption.” The...
Oklahoma Pursues the Faith Community in Serious Foster Care Drive
It’s great to see innovative state and county governments increasingly partner with churches in caring for foster youth. Although church-state rules require clear partnership guidelines, there’s a growing recognition that...
Insider Perspective on Key Foster Care Issues
Our friends at Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute’s (CCAI) this week released a few report carrying recommendations on addressing a range of hotly-debated issues surrounding the U.S. foster system, including...
Tragedy in the Horn of Africa
If you’ve caught even a glimpse of the news recently, you’ve seen the tragedy unfolding in the Horn of Africa. Observers are already describing the famine as the most serious...
International Adoption Trends…And Serious Efforts to Change Them
Our friends at JCICS today shared an internal report on trends in international adoption. It confirms the continued impacts of a deeply-flawed inter-country adoption system globally. From 2004 to 2010,...
Finding Families for Foster Youth Saves Government Significantly
Often, it takes hard work to prove what you know intuitively. Such efforts, however, can be vital in demonstrating in black-and-white the difference that common sense solutions can make. Such...