by Amy Lawson and Alice Moore Achieving permanency is a team effort. In North Carolina, all 100 counties have a public child-placing agency—usually the county […]
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Shared 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 […]
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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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by Jamie Bazemore • We all know resource parents provide love, nurturing, and care to meet the immediate needs of young people in foster care. […]
Read moreKin Caregivers and the Pandemic
by Glenda Clare • While COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for all North Carolinians, grandfamilies have been especially hard hit. More than 89,000 North Carolina […]
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