Allison Maxon, the Executive Director of the National Center for Adoption and Permanency and a founder of Unbelievably Resilient, talks to us about "What the Child Welfare Sphere Needs" and discusses the importance of listening to those with lived experience in the foster care system.

Allison Davis Maxon, M.S., LMFT and Sharon Kaplan Roszia, M.S. Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency If you have seen the Paramount Pictures movie, Instant Family, written and directed by Sean Anders, then you are familiar with the types of challenges Maxon and Roszia address in their new book Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third-Party Reproduction (2019). According to Seneca Orange County over 50,000 children in California are waiting for a safe home and loving family. Maxon and Roszia’s work illuminates the issues and offers tools to support people who chose to adopt and the youth/children who are adopted as they develop into a family and enter as a unit into a neighborhood, school system, religious and youth organizations, and the local community a safe home and loving family. Maxon and Roszia’s work illuminates the issues and offers tools to support people who chose to adopt and the youth/children who are adopted as they develop into a family and enter as a unit into a neighborhood, school system, religious and youth organizations, and the local community.

Reflections on the career of Michael Grant.

Adam Pertman, former head of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, provides compelling data in support of adoptee access to information.

Adoption Nation by Adam Pertman

Instant Family Interview with Allison Maxon

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Watch more adoption advice videos - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvwrixtADoYRNsewS_Dp8JWCIJnittUcU David Brodzinsky, PhD Psychologist & Author, shares advice for adoptive parents on a number of the most important challenges, responsibilities, and honors they face as adoptive parents. For more expert adoption advice, visit http://www.kidsinthehouse.com/adoption David Brodzinsky, PhD, is a psychologist, a professor at Rutgers University, and the co-author of "The Psychology of Adoption", "Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self", and "Children's Adjustment to Adoption: Developmental and Clinical Issues". -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- Please watch: "Celebrities Give Parenting Advice" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j_pGQ5ac-0 -~-~~-~~~-~~-~-

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Intersection of Trauma & Permanency

What Re-Envisioning Foster Care means to me. Interview with Dr. Ruth McRoy, Professor of Social Work, Children, Youth & Families, Boston College Graduate School of Social Work, at the REFCA 2014 conference, May 30, 2014 in Holyoke, MA.

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