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;
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Permanency in the News – Week of 12/10/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Survival Mode for Our Youth – What is Happening Inside Our Youth? 2) ‘She Has to be Ours’: After 4,057 Days in Foster Care, Teen Gets a Family, New Name; 3) Clearing a Road to Permanency and Stability for L.A. County Foster Youth; 4) Bridging Research and Practice in Juvenile Probation; 5) Study Suggests Abused Children Carry Trauma in their DNA; 6) The Tough Road from Foster Care to College; 7) Building a Brighter Future For Youth with Dual Status