1) Permanency Tip of the Week: I Don’t Care vs I Don’t Want to be Cared For; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Forever, No Matter What; 3) Promoting Permanency for Teens A 50 State Review of Law and Policy; 4) How LA County Began to Face Its Big Problem with Youth Being Sex-Trafficked; 5) Resource Family Tip Sheet for Supporting Reunification; 6) Talking to Your Kids About Sexual Abuse; 7) First College for Youth Emerging from Foster Care Gets Name, Opening Date
Education
Permanency in the News – Week of 3/26/18
`1] Permanency Tip of the Week: What Does It Mean to Feel Safe?; 2] Permanency Success Story of the Week: You Never Outgrow the Need for Family; 3] Friends of Children Launching Program to Help Young Adults Out of Foster Care; 4] No More Missed Goodbyes: Promoting Greater Placement Stability for California Foster Youth; 5] Together Facing the Challenge: Program Supports Foster Parents, Keeps Youth Connected to Biological Families; 6] Giving Foster Youth an Extended Family into Adulthood] 7] CWLA – Historic Increases for Children and Families in 2018 Federal Budget
Permanency in the News – Week of 3/19/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Running from Permanency vs Running to Safety – It’s All a Matter of Perspective; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: After 5 Kids, My Wife and I Became Parents. Here’s Our Story; 3) Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect with the Power of Relationships: Continuing the Conversation between Oprah and Dr. Bruce Perry; 4) Using Data to Solve our Toughest Challenges; 5) New Mapping Tool to Help Advocate for Prevention of Abuse and Neglect; 6) New UCLA Center Aims to Build Paths to Success for Foster Youth, Families; 7) Alabama Child Welfare Reforms Hold Lessons for Everyone
Permanency in the News – Week of 3/12/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Everything Looks Fine from Here, So What is Their (Adult) Problem?; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: After 23 Foster Homes, and 33 Years, Local Family Adopts Man; 3) The Body Remembers – Adverse Childhood Experiences; 4) The Gifted Child in Foster Care: Lost in the Shuffle; 5) Seven Core Issues of Adoption – Part 2: Rejection & Guilt/Shame; 6) Military Domestic Violence and Child Abuse; 7) Child Maltreatment 2016
Permanency in the News – Week of 3/5/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Everything Looks Fine from Here, So What is Their (child/youth) Problem?; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Faith-based Organization Helps Trafficking Survivor Build a New Life; 3) Seven Core Issues of Adoption – Part 1: Loss; 4) What Is Complex Trauma? A Resource Guide for Youth and Those Who Care About Them; 5) Is Time-Out Really the Best Method to Discipline Your Child?; 6) Child Sexual Abuse: When Trust Gets Shattered; 7) The Number of Kids in Foster Care is Growing and Parents’ Drug Abuse is Mainly to Blame