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Real Adoptive Parents and Teens Choose Each Other in New Heartwarming PSAs

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Thursday, October 26, 2023
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), AdoptUSKids, and the Ad Council today launched moving new public service advertisements (PSAs) that encourage prospective parents to adopt teens from foster care. Created by Edelman, the PSAs build on the campaign's "You Can't Imagine the Reward" message and feature real adoptive families sharing their adoption from foster care stories and how rewarding the journey has been for both parents and teens.

Key Points: 
  • A common misconception about teen adoption is that the decision to adopt is driven solely by adoptive parents, but in reality, teens also have an active role in that choice.
  • New PSAs, " Parents Adopted ," developed pro bono by Edelman celebrate how teens and adoptive parents actively choose each other and showcase adoptive parents talking about how they too were "adopted" by their teens.
  • Together, adoptive parents and teens talk openly about choosing to be each other's family and how they've built and fostered a life of deep and mutual rewards.
  • By inviting prospective parents to hear from these six dynamic and relatable families, the new PSAs help viewers see themselves as potential adoptive parents.

Children's Home Society Hosts Inaugural reTHINK Permanency Conference

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Tuesday, May 2, 2023
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GREENSBORO, N.C., May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- On June 15, Children's Home Society of NC (CHS) is hosting reTHINK Permanency: Unlocking Pathways from Foster Care to Family Conference in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. The reTHINK Permanency Conference will bring family service professionals and advocates across the state together to explore permanency planning for youth experiencing foster care.

Key Points: 
  • The reTHINK Permanency Conference will bring family service professionals and advocates across the state together to explore permanency planning for youth experiencing foster care.
  • Conference participants will attend keynote sessions and breakout sessions to explore all paths that youth in care can take from foster care to permanency with family.
  • Attendees will be urged to rethink how they help youth in care find loving, stable homes, and achieve improved well-being.
  • Breakout sessions will be interactive workshops and where conference attendees will be challenged to reevaluate their impact and efforts with helping youth in care establish permanency with family.

New PSAs inspired by real adoption stories motivate parents to consider adopting teens from foster care

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), AdoptUSKids, and the Ad Council today launched new emotional public service advertisements (PSAs) that encourage prospective parents to adopt teens from foster care. Created by Durable Goods, the PSAs are inspired by the stories of real adoptive families that highlight how rewarding adoption is for both parents and teens.

Key Points: 
  • Created by Durable Goods, the PSAs are inspired by the stories of real adoptive families that highlight how rewarding adoption is for both parents and teens.
  • "These exciting new PSAs demonstrate to prospective parents that adopting a teenager means experiencing all of the love, joys, challenges, and rewards of parenting.
  • Teens never outgrow the need for a healthy family, and many teens who are in foster care especially benefit from the love, support, and stability that adoption can provide.
  • Parents can also call 1-888-200-4005 to receive information about the foster care system and the adoption process.

Edward Kang and Kandis Kovalsky to Present How to Whet Uncle Sam's Whistle: A Guide to Litigating Cases under the False Claims Act at NAPABA 2022 National Convention

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022
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The program will provide an informed discussion about common issues that arise in litigating declined False Claims Act (FCA) cases from the perspectives of counsel for Relators, the Government, and defendants.

Key Points: 
  • The program will provide an informed discussion about common issues that arise in litigating declined False Claims Act (FCA) cases from the perspectives of counsel for Relators, the Government, and defendants.
  • The NAPABA Convention is the largest annual gathering of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) attorneys, judges, law professors, and law students.
  • The panelists will offer discussion from the points of view of counsel for Relators, Government, and Defendants.
  • Kandis L. Kovalsky is an accomplished business and trial lawyer at Kang Haggerty LLC in Philadelphia.

Employee Health Systems Medical Group Reaches Settlement with California Department of Managed Health Care

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Thursday, December 2, 2021
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Under the settlement, the DMHC issued an order directed to the health plans withdrawing and vacating the December 26, 2017, Cease and Desist Order.

Key Points: 
  • Under the settlement, the DMHC issued an order directed to the health plans withdrawing and vacating the December 26, 2017, Cease and Desist Order.
  • Patients and healthcare providers alike realize the importance of maintaining the integrity and continuity of care to achieve optimal health outcomes."
  • Founded in 1990, Employee Health Systems Medical Group is an integrated healthcare delivery system focusing on government-sponsored programs, including Medi-Cal/Medicaid, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), Medicare and Dual-Eligibles (Medi-Medi), organized labor and specialty IPAs.
  • For more information on the DMHC's Order to Withdraw and Vacate, please follow this link: https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/3046/1621353863931.pdf (Enforcement Matter Number: 17-1703)
    Megan Morrow, Employee Health Systems Medical Group, 1 (213) 568-1059, [email protected]

National Campaign Launches New PSAs Based On Real Stories That Inspire Parents To Consider Adopting Teens In Foster Care

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021
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"Teens in foster care deserve love and support regardless of age and these stories show the impact that families truly have on teens adopted from foster care.

Key Points: 
  • "Teens in foster care deserve love and support regardless of age and these stories show the impact that families truly have on teens adopted from foster care.
  • It is our hope that this work continues to inspire and inform prospective parents of the lifelong rewards that can come from adopting a teen from foster care."
  • Developed pro bono by creative agency Barbarian, the new PSAs build upon the theme that "You Can't Imagine the Reward" and are based on real experiences of teens adopted from foster care.
  • Parents can also call 1-888-200-4005 to receive information about the foster care system and the adoption process.

Chinook Therapeutics Presents Data from BION-1301 Phase 1/2 Trial in Patients with IgA Nephropathy (IgAN) and Atrasentan Program at the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) Kidney Week 2021

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Thursday, November 4, 2021
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Blocking APRIL is a potentially disease-modifying approach to treating IgAN by reducing circulating levels of galactose-deficient IgA1 (Gd-IgA1).

Key Points: 
  • Blocking APRIL is a potentially disease-modifying approach to treating IgAN by reducing circulating levels of galactose-deficient IgA1 (Gd-IgA1).
  • Patients in Cohort 1 received an intravenous (IV) dose of 450 mg of BION-1301 every two weeks.
  • Chinooks lead program is atrasentan, a phase 3 endothelin receptor antagonist for the treatment of IgA nephropathy and other proteinuric glomerular diseases.
  • BION-1301, an anti-APRIL monoclonal antibody is being evaluated in a phase 1/2 trial for IgA nephropathy.

Navigating Adoption: Presented by AdoptUSKids podcast Produced by Wordsworth + Booth Aims to Drive the Adoption of Teens from Foster Care

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Thursday, September 30, 2021
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NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Navigating Adoption: Presented by AdoptUSKids podcast Produced by Wordsworth + Booth Aims to Drive the Adoption of Teens from Foster Care

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, Sept. 30, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Navigating Adoption: Presented by AdoptUSKids podcast Produced by Wordsworth + Booth Aims to Drive the Adoption of Teens from Foster Care
    Podcast uses in-depth storytelling as a way of speaking to parents who are considering adopting youth.
  • This podcast gives dimension to the adoption experience, focusing on the emotional complexities of adoption as well as the fulfilling rewards of adopting a teenager from foster care.
  • The six-episode series (each approximately 30 minutes) is hosted by April Dinwoodie, a longtime expert and voice in the adoption from foster care community.
  • Adopted herself, April brings a relatable authenticity to her conversations with teens adopted from foster care, their adoptive families, and knowledgeable adoption professionals.

First-of-its-Kind National Partnership Aims to Redesign Child Welfare Into Child- and Family Well-Being Systems

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Wednesday, September 9, 2020
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Children's Bureau , Casey Family Programs , the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Prevent Child Abuse America are partnering to launch a national effort to prove it is possible to fundamentally rethink child welfare.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Children's Bureau , Casey Family Programs , the Annie E. Casey Foundation and Prevent Child Abuse America are partnering to launch a national effort to prove it is possible to fundamentally rethink child welfare.
  • Thriving Families will help select jurisdictions move from traditional, reactive systems to ones designed to proactively support child and family well-being and prevent child maltreatment and unnecessary family separation.
  • Work will begin soon at demonstration sites in California (Los Angeles County), Colorado, Nebraska and South Carolina.
  • "Our four organizations are uniquely prepared and driven to do just that, by transforming child welfare into a child and family well-being system."