1) Permanency Tip of the Week: National Foster Care Month is EVERY Month for Our Youth and Families; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Twins Separated in Foster Care Reunite After 60 Years; 3) Single Dads Adopting Children, Creating Forever Families; 4) FYA, SOUL and CYC Collaborate to Create an Innovative New Foster Youth Organizing Curriculum; 5) Teens Living in Group Homes, Foster Care at Higher Risk for Sex Trafficking; 6) Join CHAMPS in Saying #ThanksFosterFamilies During National Foster Care Month; 7) Rise Magazine Releases Guide for Working with Parents Whose Children are in Foster Care
Permanency in the News
Dr. Greg Manning’s – Permanency in the News – Week of 4/29/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Secondary Trauma/Burnout/Compassion Fatigue – #5 – Goal = Compassion Satisfaction; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Family Adopts 9 Siblings from Foster Care: ‘What a Beautiful Family’; 3) Research Central: OJJDP Releases Findings from Study on Dual System Youth; 4) New from CWLA Press: LGBTQ Youth Issues, Third Edition; 5) Keeping Kids in Families – Trends in U.S. Foster Care Placement; 6) Federal Funding Opportunity Primary Prevention of Abuse and Neglect; 7) Ex-Offender Finds Key to Stem Youth Crime: Give Kids Hope
Dr. Greg Manning’s – Permanency in the News – Week of 4/22/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Secondary Trauma/Burnout/Compassion Fatigue – #4 – What to do; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Meet the Couple That Adopted 6 Foster Siblings: ‘These Are Our Babies’; 3) ’There’s No Way for Us to Learn How to Live’: Foster Children Who Age Out of Care Suffer Later in Life; 4) Take the ACE Quiz — And Learn What It Does and Doesn’t Mean; 5) Adoption-Friendly Workpace: Bank of America; 6) Right Relationships Crucial to Help Foster Youth Get Into, Through College; 7) BREAKTHROUGH: A True Story of Love
Dr. Greg Manning’s – Permanency in the News – Week of 4/15/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Secondary Trauma/Burnout/Compassion Fatigue – #2 – Why We may Experience these Reactions; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Baby Left at Hospital with No Visitors, Adopted by Nurse; 3) Compassionate Caring – Using our Heads and Hearts in Work with Troubled Children and Youth; 4) To Eliminate Racial Bias, Child Welfare Breakthrough Tells us to Try Colorblindness; 5) Born in June, Raised in April: What Adoption Can Teach the World! – A Podcast; 6) Collaborating for Successful Reentry: A Practical Guide to Support Justice-Involved Young People; 7) Local Photographer to Provide Free Portraits for Foster Teens
Dr. Greg Manning’s – Permanency in the News – Week of 4/8/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Secondary Trauma/Burnout/Compassion Fatigue – #1 – What are These Concepts? 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Four Brothers Get Adopted by Two Families Close to Each Other; 3) Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction; 4) New Program Helps Foster Kids ‘Launch’ Into Adulthood; 5) Healthy Relationships Between Foster Parents and Biological Parents of the Children in Care; 6) Former Foster Youth, Advocate Shares Why Normalcy is Necessary; 7) Creating Sustainable Career Pathways for Disconnected Youth;