1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens – Reactive Attachment Disorder; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: From Foster Care to Miss DC: Pageant Winner Inspires Others; 3) More Needed to Help Foster Kids Who Age Out of Care; 4) Report Finds Most Maine Child Welfare Workers Stressed, Overwhelmed; 5) Dear Adoption, I Don’t Want to be Spoken For, I Want to be Listened to; 6) Toxic Stress Is the Hidden Public Health Crisis California’s New Surgeon General Wants to Solve; 7) Juvenile Probation Officers Should Not Be Fixers, But Levers to Resources for Youth
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Permanency in the News – Week of 2/18/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens – Oppositional Defiant Disorder; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Who Knew a Game of Uno Could Change Your Life?; 3) PromiseShip Celebrates 10 Years of Building Families; 4) The Adoption Process: Men and Women Handle Scenarios Differently; 5) Experts Share 6 Things You Should Know Before Working with Kids; 6) Shifting the Focus from Trauma to Compassion; 7) Judge Took a Chance on a Teen in Trouble. Now She’s Becoming a Lawyer
Permanency in the News – Week of 2/11/19
Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens According to the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM 5 (2013), “The diagnostic criteria identify symptoms, behaviors, cognitive functions, personality traits, physical signs, syndrome combinations, and durations that require clinical expertise to differentiate from normal life variation and transient responses to […]
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/21/19
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
Permanency in the News – Week of 12/3/18
Permanency Tip of the Week: Survival Mode for Our Youth – Why Does it Happen? The thoughts, emotions, and behaviors exhibited by our Youth in out of home care may appear at times to us and others as confusing, bizarre and excessive until we apply the proper lens through which to view them. Too often, […]