1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Why Cannot We Just Get and Give a Straight Answer?; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: 5 Siblings Adopted Together After Being Separated in Foster Care; 3) Pandemic Is Opportunity to Reshape Family Courts, Probation, Experts Say; 4) Advancing Trauma-informed Care Within and Across Child-Serving Systems; 5) Let’s Measure What We Really Value; 6) A Healing Journey: The Road to Reunification; 7) How Do You Know if a Child Is Traumatized?
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Permanency in the News – Week of 3/4/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens – Bipolar Disorder; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: ‘Here’s Your Baby Boy’: Firefighters Surprise Maryland Couple with Their Adopted Son; 3) Five Steps to a Stronger Child Welfare Workforce – Hiring and Retaining the Right People on the Frontline; 4) Studying Drivers of Risk and Needs Assessment Instrument Implementation in Juvenile Justice; 5) Here’s the Truth About Co-Parenting-Foster Parents and Birth Family Working Together; 6) The US Adoption System Discriminates Against Darker-Skinned Children; 7) Kids with Autism May Be at Greater Risk for Maltreatment.
Permanency in the News – Week of 1/7/19
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;