1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Missing the Human Connection ~ Stay at Home Social Isolation; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Change the Life of a Child. To Brighten Your Day; 3) Proclamation on National Foster Care Month, 2020; 4) National Foster Care Month 2020; 5) A Place to Call Home – The Making of Instant Family – Allison Maxon & Sean Anders from Instant Family; 6) Older Foster Youth Can Feel Unprepared to Navigate Mental Health Care, Study Finds; 7) Expert Warns ‘Child Abuse Pandemic’ is Next
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Permanency in the News – Week of 11/26/18
Permanency Tip of the Week: Responding to: “You Are Not My Real Family” Whether we are serving families who provide Permanency to our Youth or we are a family providing that Permanency, some form of this statement will likely be delivered by our Youth at some point along the journey. Particularly for our Permanency families, […]
Permanency in the News – Week of 11/5/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Responding to: “Everyone Else Has Given Up on Me, Will You Do the Same?”; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Finding Home: A Foster Youth Story; 3) Interview with Allison Maxon ~ Instant Family Movie (Trailer); 4) November Is National Adoption Month – In Their Own Words: Lifting Up Youth Voices; 5) Shining A Light on Good Practice – New South Wales (NSW); 6) Amelia Franck Meyer on the ‘Human Truth’ of Keeping Kids with Their Families; 7) Diversion Can Help Us Reduce Youth Violence by Aligning Caseloads with Risk Factors
Permanency in the News – Week of 9/10/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency for Our Children and Families, Ourselves, and Our Communities; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: From Broken to Unbreakable; 3) Instant Family – Major Motion Picture about Adoption; 4) Why Involving Entire Families in Child Protection Cases Can Improve the Lives of Endangered Children; 5) Adopted Daughter Meets Dad Who Didn’t Even Know She Existed for First Time; 6) Transforming Juvenile Probation – A Vision for Getting it Right; 7) How to Empower Children by Building Their Resiliency Muscle