1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Sources of Support #3 – I Am A Trained Professional, I Can Handle This Situation; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Ariana’s Story; 3) Utah First State to Receive Federal Approval of Family First Act Plan; 4) State (Florida) Struggling with High Turnover of Child Protective Investigators; 5) Secondary Traumatic Stress/ Compassion Fatigue: This Is Hard, This Work That We Do, AND We Are Making A Difference – Free Webinar; 6) The Future of (International) Adoption is in a Child’s Own Community; 7) Washington ‘State-raised’ Inmates from Foster Care Urge Better Youth Support;
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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;
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 5/21/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: The Goal of Finding Joy – In Our Permanency Efforts; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Kaleb Lee’s Adoption Story: As Seen on ‘The Voice’; 3) National Foster Care Month – Resources for Tribes; 4) We Have to Stop Losing Half of Foster Parents in the First Year; 5) How Prevention Services Could Help Youth Avoid the Foster Care System; 6) Fighting for Survival: Santa Barbara County Closing Ranks on Human Trafficking; 7) Being an Emotional Tutor for a Child in Foster Care
Permanency in the News – Week of 3/5/18
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Everything Looks Fine from Here, So What is Their (child/youth) Problem?; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Faith-based Organization Helps Trafficking Survivor Build a New Life; 3) Seven Core Issues of Adoption – Part 1: Loss; 4) What Is Complex Trauma? A Resource Guide for Youth and Those Who Care About Them; 5) Is Time-Out Really the Best Method to Discipline Your Child?; 6) Child Sexual Abuse: When Trust Gets Shattered; 7) The Number of Kids in Foster Care is Growing and Parents’ Drug Abuse is Mainly to Blame