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
Permanency
Dr. Greg Manning’s – Permanency in the News – Week of 5/27/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: What Motivates Our Youth in Foster Care? – Part 1; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Raise a Child: Meet Adoptive and Foster Mother Patsy Collins; 3) Sesame Street Introduces Karli, a Muppet in Foster Care; 4) APAC Webinar: Talking to Kids about Sexual Abuse Prevention with Debra Schneider; 5) Encouragement from a Foster Child; 6) Niall Kelly: Kids in Care Homes Need a Hug Now and Then – But it’s a Touchy Subject; 7) Black Entrepreneur Goes Viral for Creating A Hair School For White Adoptive Parents Of Black Children
Dr. Greg Manning’s – Permanency in the News – Week of 4/8/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Secondary Trauma/Burnout/Compassion Fatigue – #1 – What are These Concepts? 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Four Brothers Get Adopted by Two Families Close to Each Other; 3) Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction; 4) New Program Helps Foster Kids ‘Launch’ Into Adulthood; 5) Healthy Relationships Between Foster Parents and Biological Parents of the Children in Care; 6) Former Foster Youth, Advocate Shares Why Normalcy is Necessary; 7) Creating Sustainable Career Pathways for Disconnected Youth;
Dr. Greg Manning’s – Permanency in the News – Week of 3/25/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Find One Permanency Thing YOU Can Do Today, and Every Day; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Dreaming Big; 3) The Changing Face of Adoption in the United States; 4) Restorative Justice Gave Me the Best Day of My Life; 5) The Outdated Way We Think About Relationships in Child Welfare; 6) Permanency for Specific Populations; 7) How Adoptees Are Shaping Post-Adoption Services
Permanency in the News – Week of 3/18/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens – ADD/ADHD; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Isaiah’s Homecoming: Adoption at Age 17 Highlights the Need in Minnesota, Especially for Teens; 3) A Nurse Moved to do Something, Haunted by the Lonely Faces of Foster Children; 4) Kyle Forti: Go Love a Kid in Need and Change the World’s Perception of “Foster Dad” While You’re at it; 5) Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Need a Runway, Not a Cliff; 6) How Wendy’s Wonderful Kids is Changing Lives in Louisiana; 7) Listen to Crossover Girls Talk About Their Reality, Then Act