1) Permanency Tip of the Week: What Hopes and Dreams Should We Have for Our Youth? 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Adoption Inspires Helpfulness and Commitment in a Family of 23 Birth and Adopted Children; 3) Finding Peace this Holiday Season: A Birth Mother’s Story; 4) Crossover Youth: Los Angeles County Probation Youth with Previous Referrals to Child Protective Services; 5) It’s Not Hard for Foster Kids to Just Disappear; 6) ‘I Will Love You Forever’: Why One Family Fosters and Adopts Dying Children; 7) 4 Reasons Parenting Trauma is Incredibly Difficult
Permanency in the News
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/1/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Helping Our Youth to Hope and Dream Again; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Denver’s Annual Adoption Day; 3) Supporting Successful Reunifications; 4) Loosened Foster Care Restrictions Encourage Normalcy; 5) Turning Brain “Strains” Into “Gains” for Adolescents in Foster Care; 6) Only 3% of Former Foster Children Graduate College. Here’s How Universities are Working to Change That; 7) Expand Your Family and Vocabulary as a Foster Parent
Permanency in the News – Week of 12/18/17
1) This will be the Final Permanency in the News for 2017 – Next one will be the Week of 1/1/18; 2) Permanency Tip of the Week: Trying to be a ‘Normal’ Teenager, AND Find Permanency; 3) Permanency Success Story of the Week: 17 Kids Get Forever Families in Franklin County on National Adoption Day; 4) Everyone Provides Kinship Care – Adrian McLemore; 5) Making the Case for Adoption Clinical Competence; 6) Trauma Responsive Child Welfare Systems; 7) Fight Burnout and Compassion Fatigue with Lots of Self-care Ideas; 8) The Policy Labs We Urgently Need