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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Supporting 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. […]
Read morePlacement stability: What resource parents can do
Moves for children and youth in foster care can be traumatic. They can also undermine permanency efforts. Changing placements can increase the risk a young […]
Read moreFoster Care 18 to 21: A path to permanency
In 2017, North Carolina implemented an extended foster care program, Foster Care 18 to 21, for youth who exited foster care at age 18. National […]
Read moreWhat do youth think about relational permanence?
SaySo (Strong Able Youth Speaking Out), is a statewide, North Carolina-based association of youth aged 14 to 24 who are or have been in out-of-home […]
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