Permanency Tip of the Week: You Cannot Connect Until You Feel Safe; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: How One Man Went from Foster Care Advocate to Dad; 3) Iowa Adoptees Seek Access to Birth Certificates; 4) Family First Preservation Services Act – Chronicle of Social Change Summaries; 5) Rituals and Ceremonies to Increase Permanency; 6) The Effectiveness of Family Group Conferencing in Youth Care; 7) The Foster Care System was Unprepared for the Last Drug Epidemic-Let’s Not Repeat History
Child Welfare
Permanency in the News – Week of 2/5/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Start with the Why for Permanency; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Long Island Family Ring in 2018 with Five Newly Adopted Children from Foster Care System; 3) The Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency; 4) Best-Selling Children Series Harry Moon Joins Forces with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption; 5) Matching Neglected Children with Foster Care Families Earlier in Life Promotes Resilience, Healthy Functioning; 6) Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) – 2016; 7) The Risk and Prevention of Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/29/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Being Mindful About Permanency; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Home and Heart – Douglas and Karen; 3) Three Strategies That Helped San Francisco Increase Foster Home Applications by 300 Percent; 4) A Conversation with Nadine Burke Harris: How Should Pediatricians Address Childhood Adversity?; 5) An (Evidence Based) Guide for Juvenile & Family Courts; 6) Four Things Foster Parents Want You to Know; 7) Just Kids: When Misbehaving is a Crime
Permanency in the News – Week of Week of 1/22/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Things Were Just Starting to go Well: Is this Sabotage?; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Introducing the Carver Family; 3) The Role of the Social Worker in Adoption: Ethics and Human Rights; 4) The Reason Some People Don’t Learn from Mistakes (Trauma); 5) Adoption Triad – Understanding the Benefits of Support Groups; 6) Childhood Trauma State Policy Guide; 7) Changing Minds: Preventing Healing Childhood Trauma – State Policy Guide; 8) Every Child Deserves a Family Campaign Launched to Promote Best Interests of All Children in Foster and Adoption Systems
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/8/18
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