by Dina Gerber, MS, LCSW and Kelly Sullivan, PhD • Providing children with permanency is always part of the case plan from a DSS and […]
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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. […]
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 […]
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