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• Presentation Title

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• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner

ADOPTION RESOURCE EXCHANGE OF VIRGINIA (AREVA) & AdoptUSKids

Friday, November 2, 2018

Virginia Crossings Hotel and Conference Center

1000 Virginia Center Parkway Glen Allen, VA 23059

Facilitator: Claudette Carter Henderson, M.S.


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2 • Understand the importance of

transferring cases to AREVA timely;

• Understand the importance of submitting TPR documents & photos timely;

• Understand the importance of creating a strengths-based, positive narrative;

• Understand the importance of children being featured on AdoptUSKids; and,

• Increase the desire to put in practice timely case transfers, timely submission of required documents and develop appropriate narratives

Objectives


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3

Before we begin…

Please share: • Your name • Your agency • Your role at your agency

Ice Breaker: How many triangles?


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4 • Pre-Test Activity

• Instructions: Please create an identifier, i.e. last four SSN, birthday, code, etc. on the line at the top right of the page, “Identifier.” Please put a “T” for true and a “F” for false on the line to the left of the statement. Once the test has been completed and scored, it will be collected.

Test your Knowledge :


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5

The Continuum to Permanency

CPS Foster Care

Adoption


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6 • Recruitment Tools:

• AREVA

• VDSS Heart Gallery

• AdoptUSKids Photolisting

• AdoptUSKids Family Intake Tracking Tool

• Contractors

– Match Events

– Virginia Heart Gallery

Recruitment: Key to Permanency


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7 • A registry of children awaiting

adoption

• A vehicle to upload information on waiting children with TPR onto

AdoptUSKids website.

Adoption Resource Exchange of Virginia (AREVA)

• Fosters the featuring of children on Virginia’s Adoption website through a cooperative agreement with the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children & Families and the Department of Health & Human Services, via the AdoptUSKids website.


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8 • A vehicle for on-going

recruitment for waiting children

• Access to consultation and technical assistance to agencies in finding adoptive families for

waiting children.

AREVA cont’d.

• A vehicle for monitoring agency compliance with legal requirements for adoption and registering children and families.

Note: Do not use a child’s full name or other descriptive information in an unencrypted email. Doing so violates PII.


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9 • Norfolk Botanical Garden, November 5, 2005

• Featured 48 Portraits

• Represented 61 children

• Concept from New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department in 2001

• Between 2001 and 2005, >45 states

• Digital Heart Galleries

• AdoptUSKids—50 states, D.C., American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico & Virgin Islands

VDSS Heart Gallery


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10 A project of the US Children’s Bureau

Operated through a cooperative agreement between the Bureau and the Adoption Exchange Association (AEA).

Online and over the phone customer services

Portal for Families seeking to adopt

Portal for Registered Adoption Workers as a recruitment tool

AdoptUSKids Photolisting


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11

AdoptUSKids Inquiry Response Decision Tree


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12 • Has the case been transferred to AREVA?

• Has TPR documents been forwarded to Home Office?

• Is there a strengths-based, positive narrative in AREVA?

• Has a current, good quality, digital photo been forwarded to Home Office?

• Is the child currently listed on AdoptUSKids?

Ask the Question!


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13

Narrative


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14 How much information to share

From AdoptUSKids website


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15 • Writing the narrative is the first step in the

photolisting process.

• Balance between positive characteristics and primary needs

• Incorporate positive quotes from the child

• Ask the child to state their desires—sibling contact, religious affiliation

• Highlight milestones that the child has reached

• Verify the facts

Developing a Child’s Narrative


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16 • Details that are hurtful

• Encrypt the narrative with code words or jargon

• Create descriptives based on opinions—yours or the foster parent’s

• State psychiatric labels or medications prescribed

• Placement history details

• Place limits on the type of family needed

Child Narrative Don’ts


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17

My Story


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18 • Instructions:

• Form groups;

• In your group discuss your document and identify the errors and/or concerns;

• Select a reporter in your group; and,

• Report out—discuss your findings.

Activity—What’s wrong with Your narrative?


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19 • Points to remember:

• Registration in AREVA within 60 days of termination of parental rights (TPR)

• Submit TPR documents, to include appeals

• High quality photographs, preferably digital

• and unenhanced, .jpg format

• Narrative—”strength-based, positive”

• Timeliness—Pictures & Narrative within five business days from date of AREVA registration.

AREVA/AdoptUSKids


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20 • Post-Test

• Instructions: Please put a “T” for true and a “F” for false on the line to the left of the statement.

• Once the test has been completed and scored, the score will be compared to the Pre-Test score.

I have learned:


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21 • Adoption Hotline: 1-800-DO-ADOPT

• What to include in a public narrative. www.adoptuskids.org

• Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, www.adoptionattorneys.com

• FSWEB1008: AREVA & AdoptUSKids. In the COVLC.

Resources

http://www.adoptuskids.org/

http://www.adoptionattorneys.com/


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22

Q & A


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23 • Claudette Henderson, Adoption Specialist/AREVA

Coordinator

[email protected]

804.325.8492

• Sarah Hufziger, Adoption Administrative Specialist

[email protected]

804.726.7966

• Valerie Blizzard, Adoption Administrative Support Specialist

[email protected]

804.726.7560

Contacts

mailto:[email protected]



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