1) Permanency Tip of the Week: What Motivates Our Youth in Foster Care? – Part 2; 3) Permanency Success Story of the Week: He was About to Age Out of the Foster Care System. Then an Anchorage Woman Read a Facebook Post that Changed Their Lives; 3) Adoptees On – The Podcast Where Adoptees Discuss the Adoption Experience; 4) Faith-Based Organization Seeks to Help Young Women Who Age Out of Foster Care; 5) 5 Tips for Supporting Your Foster Child’s Parents; 6) Supporting Older Youth Beyond Age 18: Examining Data and Trends in Extended Foster Care; 7) On Father’s Day, Thinking of the Dad Who Raised Me — and the Father Who Might Not Know I Exist
Kansas
Permanency in the News – Week of 7/16/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Reciprocity in the Permanency Relationship; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Couple Adopts Three Sisters Out of Foster Care System; 3) Maintaining Connections: The Values Behind Family Engagement Practices Within the Child Welfare System; 4) Remembering Trauma: Connecting the Dots between Complex Trauma and Misdiagnosis in Youth; 5) Raising Both Biological and Adopted Children; 6) Old Wichita Convent Offers New Home to Kansas Foster Kids Setting Out On Their Own; 7) Support Matters – Lessons from the Field on Services for Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Care Families