1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens – ADD/ADHD; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Isaiah’s Homecoming: Adoption at Age 17 Highlights the Need in Minnesota, Especially for Teens; 3) A Nurse Moved to do Something, Haunted by the Lonely Faces of Foster Children; 4) Kyle Forti: Go Love a Kid in Need and Change the World’s Perception of “Foster Dad” While You’re at it; 5) Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Need a Runway, Not a Cliff; 6) How Wendy’s Wonderful Kids is Changing Lives in Louisiana; 7) Listen to Crossover Girls Talk About Their Reality, Then Act
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Permanency in the News – Week of 2/25/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens – Reactive Attachment Disorder; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: From Foster Care to Miss DC: Pageant Winner Inspires Others; 3) More Needed to Help Foster Kids Who Age Out of Care; 4) Report Finds Most Maine Child Welfare Workers Stressed, Overwhelmed; 5) Dear Adoption, I Don’t Want to be Spoken For, I Want to be Listened to; 6) Toxic Stress Is the Hidden Public Health Crisis California’s New Surgeon General Wants to Solve; 7) Juvenile Probation Officers Should Not Be Fixers, But Levers to Resources for Youth
Permanency in the News – Week of 7/16/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Reciprocity in the Permanency Relationship; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Couple Adopts Three Sisters Out of Foster Care System; 3) Maintaining Connections: The Values Behind Family Engagement Practices Within the Child Welfare System; 4) Remembering Trauma: Connecting the Dots between Complex Trauma and Misdiagnosis in Youth; 5) Raising Both Biological and Adopted Children; 6) Old Wichita Convent Offers New Home to Kansas Foster Kids Setting Out On Their Own; 7) Support Matters – Lessons from the Field on Services for Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Care Families
Permanency in the News – Week of 4/9/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: I Don’t Care vs I Don’t Want to be Cared For; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Forever, No Matter What; 3) Promoting Permanency for Teens A 50 State Review of Law and Policy; 4) How LA County Began to Face Its Big Problem with Youth Being Sex-Trafficked; 5) Resource Family Tip Sheet for Supporting Reunification; 6) Talking to Your Kids About Sexual Abuse; 7) First College for Youth Emerging from Foster Care Gets Name, Opening Date
Permanency in the News – Week of 3/26/18
`1] Permanency Tip of the Week: What Does It Mean to Feel Safe?; 2] Permanency Success Story of the Week: You Never Outgrow the Need for Family; 3] Friends of Children Launching Program to Help Young Adults Out of Foster Care; 4] No More Missed Goodbyes: Promoting Greater Placement Stability for California Foster Youth; 5] Together Facing the Challenge: Program Supports Foster Parents, Keeps Youth Connected to Biological Families; 6] Giving Foster Youth an Extended Family into Adulthood] 7] CWLA – Historic Increases for Children and Families in 2018 Federal Budget