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• Presentation Title
• Month #, 2017
• 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.
• Presentation Title
• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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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• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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Before we begin…
Please share: • Your name • Your agency • Your role at your agency
Ice Breaker: How many triangles?
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• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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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• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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The Continuum to Permanency
CPS Foster Care
Adoption
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• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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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• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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.
• Presentation Title
• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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.
• Presentation Title
• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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
• Presentation Title
• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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
• Presentation Title
• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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AdoptUSKids Inquiry Response Decision Tree
• Presentation Title
• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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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• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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Narrative
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• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
14 How much information to share
From AdoptUSKids website
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• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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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• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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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• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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My Story
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• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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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• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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
• Presentation Title
• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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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• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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
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• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
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Q & A
• Presentation Title
• Month #, 2017
• Margaret Schultze, VDSS Commissioner
23 • Claudette Henderson, Adoption Specialist/AREVA
Coordinator
Claudette.Henderson@dss.virginia.gov
804.325.8492
• Sarah Hufziger, Adoption Administrative Specialist
Sarah.Hufziger@dss.virginia.gov
804.726.7966
• Valerie Blizzard, Adoption Administrative Support Specialist
Valerie.Blizzard@dss.virginia.gov
804.726.7560
Contacts
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