Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens According to the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM 5 (2013), “The diagnostic criteria identify symptoms, behaviors, cognitive functions, personality traits, physical signs, syndrome combinations, and durations that require clinical expertise to differentiate from normal life variation and transient responses to […]
Permanency in the News
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/28/19
1) Permanency/Adoption Readiness – Dealing with Ambivalence; 2) Touchdown! 6 NFL Players Touched by Adoption; 3) Removal from the Home: Resulting Trauma; 4) Appointment of New CA Surgeon General Puts Spotlight on Early Childhood Adversity; 5) FYA Releases First-of-its-Kind Report on Foster Youth-Led Organizing; 6) Apprenticeships, A Favorite of Trump Administration, Carry Major Potential for Foster Youth; 7) Providing Background Information on Children to Prospective Adoptive Parents
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/21/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency/Adoption Readiness – Last Minute Doubts/Crises; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: These Wonderful Kids Just Want to Know You Love Them; 3) An Invitation to Remake Child Welfare; 4) North Dakota Plans for Rapid Response When Foster Youth are Charged with Crimes; 5) Their Children Thrive — Just Not with Them. What Happens to Birth Mothers After the Adoption?; 6) SEE ME: Portraits of Foster Youth Documenting the Higher Ed Grind; 7) Child Abuse Linked to Risk of Suicide in Later Life
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/7/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency/Adoption Readiness – Dealing with the Good Times; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Whitley’s Long Journey Home: How an Abused Iowa Teen Finally Found Her Family Through Adoption; 3) Oklahoma Group Building Homes so Siblings in Foster Care Can Stay Together; 4) New Resource on Successfully Implementing Risk and Needs Assessments Released by OJJDP; 5) Foster Mom Pays It Forward with Nonprofit Hope’s Anchor; 6) Crossover Youth: Los Angeles County Probation Youth with Previous Referrals to Child Protective Services; 7) FOCUS Program Connects Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care with Their Community;
Permanency in the News – Week of 12/17/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Survival Mode for Our Youth: Relationship-Based Intervention Strategies; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: ‘I Didn’t Believe in Myself’: The Journey from Foster-Care Chaos to a Loving Family and UW’s Halls; 3) A Home For The Holiday – The 20TH Anniversary; 4) Limbic Revision – Love Heals Your Traumatized Brain; 5) Child Trends is Learning How Young People and Families Fare Following Adoption from Foster Care; 6) Evaluation of Los Angeles County’s Upfront Family Finding Pilot; 7) Perspectives of Adoptees