1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Responding to: “Everyone Else Has Given Up on Me, Will You Do the Same?”; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Finding Home: A Foster Youth Story; 3) Interview with Allison Maxon ~ Instant Family Movie (Trailer); 4) November Is National Adoption Month – In Their Own Words: Lifting Up Youth Voices; 5) Shining A Light on Good Practice – New South Wales (NSW); 6) Amelia Franck Meyer on the ‘Human Truth’ of Keeping Kids with Their Families; 7) Diversion Can Help Us Reduce Youth Violence by Aligning Caseloads with Risk Factors
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Permanency in the News – Week of 10/8/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: NO One Ever Has No One; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Child Welfare Worker Adopts Teen She has been Helping to Find a Family; 3) Addressing Trauma May Be the Key to Helping Foster Youth Succeed in the Workplace; 4) Understanding Trauma: Learning Brain vs Survival Brain; 5) Family First Act Update; 6) Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption – 100 Best Adoption-Friendly Workplaces; 7) How Direct Work that Empowers Families is Delivering Big Benefits for Social Workers in this Council
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 4/16/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency Centered Goals – Child Welfare; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Because We Could—and Because We Should; 3) Let’s Make Every Month Prevention Month; 4) The Path Out of Foster Care Crisis Runs Through Family; 5) Supporting Families After They Adopt; 6) Why Adverse Childhood Experiences Matter for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System; 7) Youth Leaving Foster Care Need Help Accessing Education, Employment Opportunities