Agencies often encourage resource parents to use their natural supports and resources while providing care to children in foster care. And rightly so! Having a […]
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Connections matter during the transition to adulthood
by Amy Huntsman • I have seen too many young people leave foster care without a trusted adult to help guide them. Sometimes they’ve spent […]
Read moreExplaining the concept of permanence to children in foster care
by Dina Gerber, MS, LCSW and Kelly Sullivan, PhD • Providing children with permanency is always part of the case plan from a DSS and […]
Read moreShared Parenting Strategies to Support Permanence
Placement When children enter your home, everyone and everything is strange to them. They are wondering what they did wrong to make them leave their […]
Read moreSupporting cultural permanence
by Tonia Deese • As a resource parent, you have an important role in supporting all areas of permanence for children and youth in care. […]
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