Innovative Practice Approaches to Matching in Adoption

Hanna, Michele D.; McRoy, Ruth G.

doi:10.1080/15548732.2011.542722

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“…Other participants talked about deflecting or ignoring harmful comments by staying silent, avoiding responding, or making a joke and being the good, adopted child. These findings are analogous to those from other adoption research (Ahuriri-Driscoll, 2020; Haenga-Collins, 2011; Hanna & McRoy, 2011; Hoksbergen, 1997).…”

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Poipoia te kākano, kia puawai: resilience and resistance in the lives of Māori adoptees

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Ahuriri‐Driscoll

McBreen

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AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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Closed stranger adoption has not commonly been recognised as a tool of Indigenous oppression in Aotearoa New Zealand, yet it was a colonial practice that caused great harm to Māori. This article narrates some of the ways in which adoptees who identify as Māori demonstrate resilience and resistance to the pernicious effects of closed stranger adoption. Using a mana (strengths-based values) enhancing approach, meaning we champion respect and understanding, this research elucidates how Māori adoptees navigate complex social relationships in courageous and creative ways, including when seeking birth kinship, maintaining those relationships, and making broader efforts to (re)connect with things Māori. Māori adoptees want their experiences to be recognised by Māori and non-Māori alike, so that the ongoing harms of closed stranger adoption can be redressed, and the next generations do not continue to live the negative impacts.

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Poipoia te kākano, kia puawai: resilience and resistance in the lives of Māori adoptees

Blake

Ahuriri‐Driscoll

McBreen

et al. 2023

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

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“…Junto con ello, los profesionales también tienen el desafío de evaluar a solicitantes que no están motivados ni convencidos de adoptar a niños con los perfiles antes descritos. La asignación o matching entre una familia y un niño determinado constituye un proceso de toma de decisiones técnicas altamente subjetivo (Hanna y McRoy, 2011), lo cual se ve incrementado por la valoración diferencial de las configuraciones familiares de las solicitantes. La investigación sobre familias que adoptan a niños con «necesidades especiales» se ha centrado principalmente en parejas heterosexuales (Leung et al, 2005), por ser las mayoritarias.…”

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Adopciones monoparentales de niños y niñas con «necesidades especiales»: entre el déficit y el empoderamiento

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Single-parent adoptions of children with "special needs": Between deficit and empowerment Policies and practices of domestic and intercountry adoption explicitly and tacitly establish a matching between older children-or with some type of special need-and single-parent applicants, both of which are usually given lower priority. Based on the results of two qualitative research studies conducted in Chile and Spain with single adoptive mothers, we analyze the heterogeneous motivations and preferences of adopters with respect to the profiles of children declared adoptable, the meanings attributed to technical criteria and professional interventions, especially in the suitability and matching processes. The traditional perspective that considers single-parenthood as a risk factor and this profile of children as the most vulnerable reproduces practices of stigmatization and discrimination. We discuss the need to develop approaches, criteria and interventions focused on the capacities and resources of individuals who have been generally stigmatized in adoptive processes, as well as the political and institutional need and obligation to provide support and support resources in the pre-and post-adoptive phase.

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“…Hanna and McRoy (2011) describe the practice of matching in adoption as a means of finding families that have the right capabilities for handling a child's special needs and identifying gaps in a family's capabilities. They emphasize the need for standardization and data collection, point to match assessment tools as an important part of the family finding process, and review seven different tools used in practice by public and private agencies.…”

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“…Second, the user can state geographical preferences for the family's county of residence, which can be important in assessing the feasibility of a match if continuing community or familial relationships is important for children. Finally, as noted in Hanna and McRoy (2011), social workers who assist families can use the tool to identify shortcomings in the family's capabilities for a child and prepare appropriate support mechanisms. To this end, we have added score summaries by category so that users can more easily identify a family's strengths and challenges, as well as output reports for use by the matching committee that show how the child and family compare for each attribute.…”

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“…Compared to other matching tools discussed in Hanna and McRoy (2011), we use the same underlying framework of linearly weighted questions to score a family's suitability for a child, and add three simple innovations. First, the user can directly specify the weights for each attribute to help determine which attributes are most important for selecting a family for a child.…”

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The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange Improves Its Matching Process

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The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange (PAE) helps case workers who represent children in state custody by recommending prospective families for adoption. We describe PAE's operational challenges using case worker surveys and analyze child outcomes through a regression analysis of data collected over multiple years. A match recommendation spreadsheet tool implemented by PAE incorporates insights from this analysis and allows PAE managers to better utilize available information. Using a discrete-event simulation of PAE, we justify the value of a statewide adoption network and demonstrate the importance of better information about family preferences for increasing the percentage of children who are successfully adopted. Finally, we detail a series of simple improvements that PAE achieved through collecting more valuable information and aligning incentives for families to provide useful preference information.Key words : community OR; public service; matching; market design According to the most recent report of the Children's Bureau of the US Department of Health and Human Services (2014), approximately 397,000 children in the United States are living in the foster care system, with 102,000 of them waiting for adoptive placement. In 2012, while 50,000 children were successfully adopted from foster care, approximately 23,000 were discharged due to emancipation as they reached the age of 18 without receiving a permanent home. As cataloged by Howard and Brazin (2011), numerous studies have shown that children who spend significant time in foster care or "age out" of foster care without finding a permanent family suffer from alarming levels of unemployment, homelessness, early parenthood, and incarceration. For example, Reilly (2003) reports that 41% of respondents between the ages of 18 and 25 who had aged out of the foster care system have spent time in jail.

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Innovative Practice Approaches to Matching in Adoption

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Poipoia te kākano, kia puawai: resilience and resistance in the lives of Māori adoptees

Poipoia te kākano, kia puawai: resilience and resistance in the lives of Māori adoptees

Adopciones monoparentales de niños y niñas con «necesidades especiales»: entre el déficit y el empoderamiento

The Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange Improves Its Matching Process

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