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We Heard You: NCAP to Fill Gap Left by Donaldson Institute … and More

8/13/2019

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Two on Our Team Publish Important New Book 
Amanda Baden Joins NCAP as a Senior Fellow

BOSTON, Aug. xx, 2019 – The National Center on Adoption and Permanency announced today that, over the coming months, it will begin disseminating research-based publications comparable to those issued by the Donaldson Adoption Institute (DAI) before it closed last year. As part of this expansion of NCAP’s mission, the accomplished scholar Amanda Baden, PhD, will become our 11th Senior Research Fellow on Sept. 1.

The decision to fill the gap left by DAI’s closure coincides with the publication of an important 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,” by Sharon Kaplan Roszia, who is an NCAP team member, and Allison Davis Maxon, who is NCAP’s Executive Director.


Learn more about Sharon and Allison’s book on NCAP’s website, and then order a copy! 

“We’re so proud that Amanda is joining us and that `Seven Core Issues’ is already making a real contribution to professionals and families,” said Maxon. “Most of all, I’m delighted that NCAP is responding to all the professionals, educators, advocacy organizations, policy-makers, members of the extended family of adoption, and so many others who keep telling us how much they miss the work Donaldson’s used to do. And, given the people on NCAP’s team, it makes perfect sense that we’ll be the ones to do that work again.”

Maxon was referring to 10 of her current colleagues, who came to NCAP from the Donaldson Institute several years before its closure in early 2018. They include
Adam Pertman, who headed DAI and originated/edited its publications for almost a dozen years before leaving to found NCAP; David Brodzinsky, Susan Livingston Smith and Jeanne Howard, who were DAI’s lead researchers and report authors and now hold various positions at NCAP; Bruce Boyer, an NCAP team member who was on DAI’s Board of Directors; and several current NCAP Senior Research Fellows – Ruth McRoy, Dana Johnson, Abbie Goldberg, Laurie Miller and Ellen Pinderhughes – who held the same title at DAI. 

Baden, a professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, was also previously a Senior Fellow at DAI. Read all of our team’s bios, as well as information about our unique work, at www.ncap-us.org. ​

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NCAP Outreach Letter Focuses on How Our People, Services Aim to Create a `Success Model’ for All Children and Families

5/11/2017

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Dear Colleague: I am writing today to tell you about a relatively new nonprofit organization that you may not know much about yet, though you may well recognize the names of our team members and Senior Research Fellows, as they include some of the most-accomplished thought leaders, researchers, trainers, speakers, educators, organizational and communications specialists, and policy experts in the field of child welfare. Together, we have formed the National Center on Adoption and Permanency (NCAP) because we believe deeply that the time has come to make fundamental, systemic, long-term changes to benefit the children and families we all serve – and we truly believe that, together, we can make that goal a reality.

To read the full announcement, click here.
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January 26, 2015: A New Organization and a New Focus: Enabling Children and Families to Succeed

1/28/2015

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Posted January 26, 2015 in the Huffington Post:

Finding safe, permanent homes for children in foster care -- usually through adoption when they cannot return to their families of origin -- has become a federal mandate and a national priority during the past few decades. That's obviously a very good thing, but there's a too-little-discussed downside to this positive trend: Far too little attention is being paid to serving children after placement to ensure that they can grow up successfully in their new families and so that their parents can successfully raise them to adulthood.

Notice the use of the word "successfully" twice in the last paragraph. It's the key. It's also the founding principle of a new organization I'm proud to lead, the National Center on Adoption and Permanency (NCAP). Our mission is to move policy and practice in the U.S. beyond their current concentration on child placement to a model in which enabling families of all kinds to succeed -- through education, training and support services -- becomes the bottom-line objective.


Read Full Story Here
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January 15, 2015: Native educator works to serve the needs of children

1/27/2015

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Posted January  15, 2015 in Cal State Monterey Bay News:

Kathryn England-Aytes, a lecturer in psychology, has joined a newly created national organization that serves the needs of children.

Dr. England-Aytes will serve as a consultant with the National Center on Adoption and Permanency, an organization that provides information, resources and services relating to adoption, foster care and child welfare.

Former Kinship Center CEO Carol Biddle is the managing director; Adam Pertman, former president of the Donaldson Adoption Institute, is the founder and president.

Her work with the center “fits into my own research interests on historical trauma and links with contemporary behavior, particularly in educational settings, in Indian Country,” she said.

Read Full Story Here


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