By Carmelita Coleman Reunification is often the goal for children and youth placed in foster care. For older youth, this journey is especially complex, as […]
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Shared Parenting and Reunification: A Birth Mother and Foster Mother Shared Their Perspectives
By Nadine and Marie Nadine: My foster care journey began in 2016. As a newly licensed foster parent I didn’t really understand what shared parenting […]
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My name is Shanita Dildy-Goings and I am considered a lived experience expert on life within and transitioning from substitute care. Lived experience experts use […]
Read moreA Reader Asks: What is Unlicensed Kinship Care?
What is Kinship Care? Kinship care is the full-time care, nurturing, and protection of children by their relatives, members of their tribes or clans, godparents, […]
Read moreNorth Carolina’s Child Welfare Family Advisory Council
By Melissa Russell Maybe you’ve heard of the N.C. State Child Welfare Family Advisory Council. Maybe you haven’t. Hopefully, by the time you’ve finished reading […]
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