Permanency Tip of the Week: Responding to a Rupture in a Relationship
For individuals with well-established Permanency in their life, ruptures in relationships are generally acknowledged as normal and responded to as opportunities to learn from mistakes made and thus strengthen the relationship. For individuals with histories of abuse, neglect, loss and trauma – ruptures in relationships may be experienced in a devastating way and responded to an extreme fashions which can include ending the relationship entirely. While on their journey towards Permanency, it is important that we help to prepare our Youth for the natural roller-coaster road that happens with many relationships and to help them stick with and learn through these ruptures in relationships so that they can ultimately establish and sustain Permanency in their life.
Permanency Story of the Week: Jazzy’s Quest: Adopted and Amazing!
Book – What makes you amazing? That’s what Star-Wars-loving adoptee Jazzy Armstrong has to figure out before the big community talent show. Is she musical like her parents and sisters? Can she make dazzling flower arrangements like her birth mother, score goals on the soccer field like her birth brother, or is there something unique about Jazzy that is nothing like her families? Join Jazzy on her quest to discover just what makes her amazing!
Current Permanency related articles:
Rancho Damacitas champions the success of foster youth
Started by a loving couple housing four foster children, the organization has grown over decades to include six residential facilities housing 36 children while maintaining a variety of programs including Children’s Enrichment, scholarships, and Project Independence aimed at helping children beyond their time in Rancho Damacitas’ care.
Helping Foster Youth Build a Home Within: Q&A with Toni Heineman
There is a particular trauma associated with the chronic loss that so many foster kids face. The losses are unexpected and unpredictable, although foster kids do come to expect to lose people over and over again, and they don’t let themselves open up, as we know.
Protecting Your Partner, Protecting Your Marriage: Why Marriages Fail for Foster Parents
Dr. John DeGarmo – Sadly, many marriages suffer during the foster process. When you are putting much of your energies and time into your foster child, you may be so drained and exhausted that you soon neglect your spouse. Further complication this, some foster children are skilled at pitting one parent against the other, bringing some heated and very unproductive arguments to your home.
Legislature Approves Foster Care Overhaul
The California foster care system would be overhauled under a bill passed by the state Legislature Friday. It moves the state away from long-term group homes for foster children.
Toward Preventing Adoption-Related Suicide
Attempted suicide is more common among adolescents who live with adoptive parents than among adolescents who live with biological parents. The association persists after adjusting for depression and aggression and is not explained by impulsivity as measured by a self-reported tendency to make decisions quickly.
The best way to prevent adoptee suicide is to accept that your child comes into your family with an existing family and, very possibly, with grief over losing them. Honor her grief, encourage him to verbalize his anger, and embrace their kin despite your fear.
It’s the Law! 2015 Policy Changes that Impact Foster Youth and Homeless Youth
Webinar – Wed, Oct 14, 2015 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PDT; John Burton Foundation – The 2015 legislative session has come to an end and a variety of new laws are headed towards final approval that impact foster youth and homeless youth in California. Join the John Burton Foundation along with representatives from other advocacy organizations to learn which bills made it and which didn’t and how these changes will impact foster youth and homeless youth in the years ahead.