1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency/Adoption Readiness – Last Minute Doubts/Crises; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: These Wonderful Kids Just Want to Know You Love Them; 3) An Invitation to Remake Child Welfare; 4) North Dakota Plans for Rapid Response When Foster Youth are Charged with Crimes; 5) Their Children Thrive — Just Not with Them. What Happens to Birth Mothers After the Adoption?; 6) SEE ME: Portraits of Foster Youth Documenting the Higher Ed Grind; 7) Child Abuse Linked to Risk of Suicide in Later Life
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Dr. Greg ManningPermanency in the News – Week of 1/14/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency/Adoption Readiness – Address the Doubts/Concerns Early; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: ‘I Really Want a Mom’: 24-Year-Old Asks Former School Resource Officer to Adopt Her; 3) This is Not Okay – Visualizing Foster Care Placement Instability; 4) Foster Kids Should Never Have to “Appreciate What You’re Doing for Them”; 5) Rubio, Feinstein Introduce Social Security Waiver Extension to Support Foster Care and Welfare Recipients; 6) Profiles in Permanency: Stabilizing Adoptions and Guardianships; 7) President Signs Into Law Bipartisan Bill Cosponsored by Senator Hassan to Help Survivors of Child Abuse.
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/7/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency/Adoption Readiness – Dealing with the Good Times; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Whitley’s Long Journey Home: How an Abused Iowa Teen Finally Found Her Family Through Adoption; 3) Oklahoma Group Building Homes so Siblings in Foster Care Can Stay Together; 4) New Resource on Successfully Implementing Risk and Needs Assessments Released by OJJDP; 5) Foster Mom Pays It Forward with Nonprofit Hope’s Anchor; 6) Crossover Youth: Los Angeles County Probation Youth with Previous Referrals to Child Protective Services; 7) FOCUS Program Connects Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care with Their Community;
Permanency in the News – Week of 12/17/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Survival Mode for Our Youth: Relationship-Based Intervention Strategies; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: ‘I Didn’t Believe in Myself’: The Journey from Foster-Care Chaos to a Loving Family and UW’s Halls; 3) A Home For The Holiday – The 20TH Anniversary; 4) Limbic Revision – Love Heals Your Traumatized Brain; 5) Child Trends is Learning How Young People and Families Fare Following Adoption from Foster Care; 6) Evaluation of Los Angeles County’s Upfront Family Finding Pilot; 7) Perspectives of Adoptees
Permanency in the News – Week of 12/10/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Survival Mode for Our Youth – What is Happening Inside Our Youth? 2) ‘She Has to be Ours’: After 4,057 Days in Foster Care, Teen Gets a Family, New Name; 3) Clearing a Road to Permanency and Stability for L.A. County Foster Youth; 4) Bridging Research and Practice in Juvenile Probation; 5) Study Suggests Abused Children Carry Trauma in their DNA; 6) The Tough Road from Foster Care to College; 7) Building a Brighter Future For Youth with Dual Status