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.
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Permanency in the News – Week of 2/25/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens – Reactive Attachment Disorder; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: From Foster Care to Miss DC: Pageant Winner Inspires Others; 3) More Needed to Help Foster Kids Who Age Out of Care; 4) Report Finds Most Maine Child Welfare Workers Stressed, Overwhelmed; 5) Dear Adoption, I Don’t Want to be Spoken For, I Want to be Listened to; 6) Toxic Stress Is the Hidden Public Health Crisis California’s New Surgeon General Wants to Solve; 7) Juvenile Probation Officers Should Not Be Fixers, But Levers to Resources for Youth
Permanency in the News – Week of 2/18/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens – Oppositional Defiant Disorder; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Who Knew a Game of Uno Could Change Your Life?; 3) PromiseShip Celebrates 10 Years of Building Families; 4) The Adoption Process: Men and Women Handle Scenarios Differently; 5) Experts Share 6 Things You Should Know Before Working with Kids; 6) Shifting the Focus from Trauma to Compassion; 7) Judge Took a Chance on a Teen in Trouble. Now She’s Becoming a Lawyer
Permanency in the News – Week of 2/11/19
Permanency Tip of the Week: Reframing Mental Illness Diagnosis through a Trauma and Permanency Informed Lens According to the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM 5 (2013), “The diagnostic criteria identify symptoms, behaviors, cognitive functions, personality traits, physical signs, syndrome combinations, and durations that require clinical expertise to differentiate from normal life variation and transient responses to […]
Permanency in the News – Week of 2/4/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency/Adoption Readiness – Dealing with the Eeyore Syndrome; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Mom Learns Foster Baby is Her Adopted Son’s Sister, So She Adopts Her as Well; 3) Ten Questions Couples Should Ask Before Becoming Foster Parents; 4) CalYOUTH Brief: No Association between Extended Care & Permanency Decline; 5) How the Opioid Crisis Is Changing the American Family — with Grandparents Raising Grandchildren; 6) The Fear That Your Foster Child Lose All the Progress They’ve Made; 7) What is Trauma-Informed Care?