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