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 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