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1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency/Adoption Readiness – Dealing with the Good Times; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Whitley’s Long Journey Home: How an Abused Iowa Teen Finally Found Her Family Through Adoption; 3) Oklahoma Group Building Homes so Siblings in Foster Care Can Stay Together; 4) New Resource on Successfully Implementing Risk and Needs Assessments Released by OJJDP; 5) Foster Mom Pays It Forward with Nonprofit Hope’s Anchor; 6) Crossover Youth: Los Angeles County Probation Youth with Previous Referrals to Child Protective Services; 7) FOCUS Program Connects Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care with Their Community;