Sixto Cancel advocates for child welfare reform on the national stage May 11, 2022 by AdoptUSKids · Published May 11, 2022 · Last modified May 24, 2022 Sixto Cancel became an advocate at an early age when he had to argue his way out of an adoption. Today, Sixto is advocating for child welfare reform on the national stage as the leader of Think of Us.
Recruitment alone isn’t enough April 29, 2022 by AdoptUSKids · Published April 29, 2022 · Last modified May 5, 2022 Learn why culturally competent engagement and support is key to sustaining a pool of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx foster and adoptive families.
How to support foster, adoptive, and kinship families of color WEBINAR by AdoptUSKids · Published February 17, 2022 · Last modified April 18, 2022 In this webinar, presenters explain why Black and Brown families need unique support from the child welfare system and highlight key strategies for supporting them.
Addressing moral injury in our profession January 21, 2022 by AdoptUSKids · Published January 21, 2022 · Last modified January 26, 2022 “I was struggling for a way to stay in child welfare and feel good about it.”
Successfully recruiting and supporting African American families January 5, 2022 by AdoptUSKids · Published January 5, 2022 · Last modified April 18, 2022 “There’s been a shift from screening families out to screening them in…we started looking at what families can do, and working to remove barriers that were preventing people from fostering and adopting.”
“All’s well that begins well” November 23, 2021 by AdoptUSKids · Published November 23, 2021 · Last modified December 1, 2021 “As a child welfare professional, I believe that it is my role and responsibility to lift youth’s voices in their permanency planning so that other children do not silently move through life the way that I did as a teenager.”
