North Carolina is committed to permanency. It has declared:
Children and youth in the foster care program will experience stability in foster care and achieve permanency in a timely manner and youth who do not achieve permanency will transition successfully into adulthood.
As child welfare workers, judges, and others pursue this goal, their success often hinges on contributions made by the people who care for children and youth in foster care on a day-to-day basis: foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers. Resource parents are critical partners for anyone who wants to achieve permanency.
We celebrate this fact and want to provide information and resources to support their success in this essential role. That’s why this issue is filled with stories and advice from birth parents, young people in foster care, and others about shared parenting, maintaining connections with siblings and natural supports, and other topics. We hope you find it helpful.
Click here to read it online. You can also download it as a pdf.
