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 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?
Dr. Greg ManningPermanency in the News – Week of 1/14/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency/Adoption Readiness – Address the Doubts/Concerns Early; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: ‘I Really Want a Mom’: 24-Year-Old Asks Former School Resource Officer to Adopt Her; 3) This is Not Okay – Visualizing Foster Care Placement Instability; 4) Foster Kids Should Never Have to “Appreciate What You’re Doing for Them”; 5) Rubio, Feinstein Introduce Social Security Waiver Extension to Support Foster Care and Welfare Recipients; 6) Profiles in Permanency: Stabilizing Adoptions and Guardianships; 7) President Signs Into Law Bipartisan Bill Cosponsored by Senator Hassan to Help Survivors of Child Abuse.
Permanency in the News – Week of 10/29/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Responding to: “I Give Up on Having a Family”; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: One Year On: Adopted Girl, Reunited with Birth Parents on a Hangzhou Bridge, Returns to China to Teach English, Learn About Herself; 3) How One Woman Wants to Help Foster Care Youth, and it Involves Cake; 4) Supporting Older Youth in Foster Care; 5) 10 Self-Care Strategies During Trying Times; 6) Once in Recovery, Now Role Models; 7) Adverse Childhood Experiences & Dr. Bruce Perry