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Check out the most recent Monthly MARE Update!

November/December, 2003

MARE Changes Coming in '04: Learn what MARE's "expansion" means for workers, for families -- and especially for waiting children.

Digital Photo Tips:...and even some tips for old-fashioned film photography!

Wayne FIA Calling Out Ceremony

September/October, 2003

Supreme Court/FIA Work Group Present Final Report on Adoption Issues

MARE Library -- Resource Review: The Healing Power of the Family: An Illustrated Overview of Life with the Disturbed Foster or Adopted Child by Robert J. Delaney, Ph.D.

August, 2003

Providing Background Information to Adoptive Parents: From a factsheet published by the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse

Church Flyers an Effective Recruitment Tool : MARE can help with church bulletins.

July, 2003

2002
November/December
  • Adoption Support Subsidy: Eligibility No Longer Linked to MARE Registration
  • Billboard Promotes Adoption
  • LPGA Pro-Am Golf Tournament Will Benefit Michigan Adoption Agencies
September/October
  • MARE Contract Renewed: Program Changes Ahead
  • Pre-Adoption Training Schedule - 2003
  • The Montcalm School
  • In Lenawee County, Wendy's "Kicks it Up For Kids"

July/August
  • Raising a Large Adoptive Family
May/June
  • CWI 2002: An Improved Curriculum
  • Reactive Attachment Disorder
March/April
  • The Scoop About Sanctions
  • Living with Oral Apraxia
January/February
  • The "10-Day Timeframe" Explained
  • Thank You, Dave

 

2001
November/December
  • Regional PASS Centers Now Open
   
September/October
  • National Adoption Month Approaching
  • R is for Resource -- The R in MARE
  • "While You Wait" Events a Success
  • Pre-Adoption Orientation and Training Sessions Scheduled for 2002
  • MARE Website Adds Videos
 

July/August
  • Peng Returns! "Me, Myself and I" Lifebooks Now Available
  • LifeBooks: Every Foster Child Needs One
  • Child Welfare Training Institute -- A Resource for Professional Development
   
May/June
  • Adoption Statistics 2000: Record Number of Adoptions is Source of Pride for Michigan
  • The All New Zone Review
  • Revised Tracking List Messages
  • 30 Photos and Videos. . .All in One Night!
   
March/April
  • Pre-Adoption Orientation and Training Sessions: Demand Remains High
  • The Effects of Fetal Alcohol Exposure
   
January/February
  • The Inaugural State of the MARE Book Address
  • Recruitment Effort Finds Families for Children -- Bethany Christian Services One-by-One Program

 

2000
November/December
  • The Eyes Have It -- Learn about EMDR
   
September/October
  • Using Child Specific Recruitment Effectively
  • Preparing Children for Child Specific Recruitment
  • Child Specific Recruitment: Using MARE Videotaping
  • Interviewing Children
 

August/September
  • Finding S.A.F.E. Homes for Children
  • Helping Foster Families Adopt: Planning to Break the Barriers
  • Asking the Expert: Preparing the Foster Family to Adopt
   
July/August
  • CASA Program Growing in Michigan
   
May/June
  • MARE Tutorial 2000

 

1999
November/December
  • Sibling Ties are Worth Preserving
  • MEPA Grievance Procedures
  • MARE Library Adds Resources
  • Recruitment Opportunity -- the Maury Povich Show
   
September/October
  • Federal Laws Aim to Remove Barriers -- Get the details behind ASFA and MEPA
  • Helpful Hints: What's Mild? What's Severe? A quick guide to impairment levels
 

July/August
  • MARE Videotaping Service: A Recruitment Tool for Workers
  • Targeted Recruitment: The Most Effective Strategy
   
May/June
  • What is Autism?
  • Making MARE Work
   
March/April
  • Preparing Children for Permanency
  • The Effect of Loss
   
January/February
  • A Basic MARE Tutorial
  • Sears Portrait Program Available

 

1998
November/December
  • Finding Families for Teens: They Really Are Out There!
  • Responding to Families in Crisis -- Conference notes from the 1998 North American Council on Adoptable Children
September/October
  • Let's Review: The Purposes of Zone Reviews
  • Recruitment Narratives: What to Leave in, What to Leave Out

July/August
  • When Adoption Delays are Paper Thin -- An Overview of the Zone Review Process
  • New Director of Adoption Services in Michigan -- Meet Jean Hoffman
May/June
  • A Visit with the Adoption Subsidy Program Manager -- Meet Kate Young
  • Public Act 172 Brings Changes to Adoption Policy
March/April
  • HIV/AIDS and the Child Welfare System
  • Child Protection Bills Signed into Law
January/February
  • "And the Award Goes To..." MARE Trivia Challenge Contestant Rises to the Top

 

1997
November/December
  • Adoption: A Celebration of Family
  • MARE Trivia Challenge
   
July/August
  • MCI: A Friend to Families
  • Assistive Technology Breaks Down Barriers
   
May/June
  • To Have and to Hold -- Holding Therapy
   
March/April
  • MARE: A Cliff-Notes Guide
  • Using Media for Recruitment

 

1996
November/December
  • A Voice for Children: Richard Bearup, Michigan's Children's Ombudsman
  • When Therapy is Necessary
   
September/October
  • Disclosing Background Information
  • It's All in the Name -- What does a name mean to a child?
 

July/August
  • Federal Goal Review
  • Thanks for the T.I.P -- The Tuition Incentive Program
   
May/June
  • Looking at Attention Deficit Disorder, Part 2
  • Meet the MCI Superintendent -- Meet Bill Johnson
   
March/April
  • Looking at Attention Deficit Disorder, Part 1
   
January/February
  • 10-Day Guidelines -- Learn About the Infamous "10-Day Timeframe"
  • MARE 101 ...or, Everything You Wanted to Know...

 

1995
November/December
  • Issues in Attachment
  • Post-Adopt Respite Program Available
   
September/October
  • MARE Stories: Fairytale or Fact?
 

July/August
  • AASK About Adoption -- AASK Midwest
  • MARE Serves Families, Too
   
March/April
  • The Way Things Are . . . An Overview of Our Adoption System
January/February
  • Where Consideration is Due...How to work with waiting families
  • Multiethnic Placement Act of 1994