This article was published on February 4, 2016 in the Sacramento Bee.  To read the full article, click here.

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“The pressure on traditional agencies is really immense, and finding a way to keep it together has been harder and harder,” said Adam Pertman, director of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency, a Boston-based nonprofit group that provides information for adopting families. “Agencies have been closing and consolidating. With fewer placements, you need fewer agencies.”
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Published January 24, 2017 on Observer. 

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There’s a new app that’s supposed to make adopting kids quick and easy. Like most startups, it’s targeting millennials. The tagline: “Parenthood is just a swipe away.”

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​‘This is a complex process, not in order to lock anybody out, but to make sure they wind up in safe permanent homes’ —Adam Pertman

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This was published December 21, 2016 in the Chicago Tribune.  To read the full article, click here.

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Anderson's timing of his tour was right-on, said Adam Pertman, president of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency in Boston and Los Angeles.
"The demographics of adoption have changed dramatically in the last few decades," said Pertman. No longer is the average adoptee a healthy infant. Now, the median age is 6.8 years, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and, often, the child is part of a sibling group. Adoptive parents are not necessarily young, heterosexual same-race couples.
"Closed adoption" is becoming a thing of the past, said Pertman. Today, most adoptions of babies are open.

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Published December 15, 2016 on California State Bay University Monterey Bay Magazine by By Scott Roark
To read the full article, click here. This article features our own Senior Fellow, Kathryn England-Aytes:

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Native Americans, or as many prefer to be identified: Dine, Cherokee, Potawatomi and Choctaw among hundreds of other tribal identities, continue to be an integral part of our social fabric. The history of interactions between Native Americans and the United States government is long and complex. Before contact with settlers, nearly all indigenous groups in North America were communal societies, organized around systems of kinship and clan membership. Individuals did not own land and resources were shared by the group.

Pictures from the Second Annual Native American Gathering, held at the CSUMB University Center in November 2016. Participants came from the Kiowa, Lakota, Ute, Yaqui, Cherokee and Choctaw tribes, and the Tule River Native Veterans Post. (photos by Randy Tunnell).
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From the beginning of settler contact, Native peoples endured grave injustices, including policies of extermination, forced removal, and assimilation. They were forced to adapt to an immigrating foreign culture that now, ironically, is becoming increasingly wary of immigration.

At CSUMB and other institutions, many Native students tend to be quiet. They don’t draw attention to themselves. Their fellow students are often oblivious to Native American history. Kathryn England-Aytes, a CSUMB psychology lecturer, and Browning Neddeau, an assistant professor of liberal studies, are among a number of Native faculty at CSUMB working to change that.

Kathryn England-Aytes
England-Aytes is of Cherokee descent. She was raised in Oklahoma and still resides there part-time, also teaching at Bacone College in Muskogee. Many of her tribal students in Oklahoma are first-generation students with strong cultural connections. Her teaching and research include perceptions of historical trauma, resilience and cultural identity for Native Americans and their descendants. Among many passions is her work with the Native American Children’s Alliance (NACA), an inter-tribal membership organization that promotes child abuse prevention in Native American communities.

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Interview with Adam Pertman by Jane Samuel, JD for the August 2016 issue of Therapeutic Parenting Journal:
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"...our adoption system in the US is failing families, and change needs to occur to better serve the children waiting for homes here and overseas. This change is overdue and needs to track better with recent research highlighting the profound neurological and emotional impacts of early-life toxic stress, neglect and/ or abuse. And this change needs to be systemic.

Pertman, author of the critically acclaimed book Adoption Nation and former head of the Donaldson Adoption Institute, sat down and chatted with me this June about his passion for this paradigm shift." 

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Published on Lavender Luz on August 18, 2016

Introduction:
As children around the country head back to school, Adam Pertman shares an update to a post he initially published a few years ago. His original article on adoption in schools referenced a 2006 policy paper published by the Donaldson Adoption Institute. He laments that he didn’t have to make many changes because not much progress has been made to help educators better serve adoptive families.

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On air August 1, 2016 on WBUR 90.9 in Boston, MA

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“Before I started seeing transgender kids, it would not have occurred to me that we might see more adopted kids,” said Dr. Daniel Shumer, who treated transgender kids at the GEMS clinic for three years before moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan, to work in a similar clinic. Shumer and three co-authors have presented the data at a conference and submitted it for publication.

"Adopted people of all ages, especially children, are disproportionately represented in clinical settings," said Adam Pertman, president of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency and author of the book "Adoption Nation." "The majority of adoptions today are from foster care. Then add to those the children adopted from institutions abroad and you have a population who suffered early trauma, so of course they are disproportionately represented in clinical settings."

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Published on Every Mother Counts blog on July 18, 2016

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Every adoption involves complicated circumstances that deeply impact parents on both sides of the equation.

When it comes to the emotional and physical struggles every new parent faces though, birth moms get very little support. In fact, Adam Pertman, President and CEO of the National Center on Adoption and Permanency and the father of two adopted children, says, “they’re too often considered an afterthought.”
Pertman is also the author of Adoption Nation (Harvard Common Press; 2nd edition, 2011) and an expert at navigating the world of adoption, which he says is understandably “very sensitive territory.” We began our conversation by clarifying some terms.
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