Critical Partners for Permanency
This free 1-hour course explains why North Carolina prefers to achieve permanence through reunification or kinship care, the importance of shared parenting and helping youth maintain connections with people that matter to them, and the role kinship care can play in achieving permanence. Hosted on FosteringNC.org, NC’s learning site for foster and adoptive parents and kin caregivers.
Know Your Options
This guide outlines the resources, supports, and benefits available to kinship caregivers in North Carolina. Explains the foster care, adoption, and legal guardianship processes and includes a helpful chart that compares different types of kinship placements.
Guardianship: Pathway to Permanence
This free, 1-hour course provides NC resource parents information about guardianship. Explores differences and similarities between adoption and guardianship and includes interviews in which NC guardians explain why they chose this pathway to permanence and what it has been like for them. Hosted on FosteringNC.org
https://ncswlearn.org/WP/FosteringNC/Guardianship/story_html5.html
Youth Perspectives on Permanence
Don’t miss this memorable 2-minute video, in which young people from NC share their thoughts about what permanence means to them.
