Permanency Tip of the Week: You Cannot Connect Until You Feel Safe; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: How One Man Went from Foster Care Advocate to Dad; 3) Iowa Adoptees Seek Access to Birth Certificates; 4) Family First Preservation Services Act – Chronicle of Social Change Summaries; 5) Rituals and Ceremonies to Increase Permanency; 6) The Effectiveness of Family Group Conferencing in Youth Care; 7) The Foster Care System was Unprepared for the Last Drug Epidemic-Let’s Not Repeat History
Education
Permanency in the News – Week of 2/12/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Love is in the Air; However, Our Youth First Need Permanency; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Alyssa’s Forever Family Story; 3) I Want to Go Home – Elisabeth Corey; 4) How Much Does Child Abuse Cost? Study Says $400K Over a Lifetime; 5) My Child Doesn’t Remember the Neglect as an Infant, But His Body Does; 6) Everyone Has Their Puzzle Completed. Except Me; 7) ‘Child Welfare Then and Now’ Podcast;
Permanency in the News – Week of 2/5/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Start with the Why for Permanency; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Long Island Family Ring in 2018 with Five Newly Adopted Children from Foster Care System; 3) The Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency; 4) Best-Selling Children Series Harry Moon Joins Forces with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption; 5) Matching Neglected Children with Foster Care Families Earlier in Life Promotes Resilience, Healthy Functioning; 6) Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) – 2016; 7) The Risk and Prevention of Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/29/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Being Mindful About Permanency; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Home and Heart – Douglas and Karen; 3) Three Strategies That Helped San Francisco Increase Foster Home Applications by 300 Percent; 4) A Conversation with Nadine Burke Harris: How Should Pediatricians Address Childhood Adversity?; 5) An (Evidence Based) Guide for Juvenile & Family Courts; 6) Four Things Foster Parents Want You to Know; 7) Just Kids: When Misbehaving is a Crime
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/8/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: What Hopes and Dreams Should We Have for Our Youth? 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Adoption Inspires Helpfulness and Commitment in a Family of 23 Birth and Adopted Children; 3) Finding Peace this Holiday Season: A Birth Mother’s Story; 4) Crossover Youth: Los Angeles County Probation Youth with Previous Referrals to Child Protective Services; 5) It’s Not Hard for Foster Kids to Just Disappear; 6) ‘I Will Love You Forever’: Why One Family Fosters and Adopts Dying Children; 7) 4 Reasons Parenting Trauma is Incredibly Difficult