Vol. 10, No. 2 • May 2006

Get In-Service Training Credit for Reading this Newsletter!

If you are a North Carolina foster parent you can enjoy reading Fostering Perspectives and earn credit toward your relicensure. Just write down the answers to the questions below and present them to your social worker. If your answers are satisfactory, you’ll receive 30 minutes of credit toward your in-service training requirement. If you or your licensing social worker have questions about this method of gaining in-service credit, please contact the N.C. Division of Social Services at 919/733-7672.

In-Service Quiz, FP v10#2

1. Name four things you can do to help you manage your emotions before you have contact with the birth parents of children who have been sexually abused.
   
   
2. Name three things you can do to safeguard the health and development of children and teens in foster care.
   
   
3. Give four reasons that kids join youth gangs and name four things you can do to prevent their involvement with gangs.
   
   
4. Even if you can’t attend the rally in Raleigh on May 16, what would you like the NC Foster and Adoptive Parent Association to say to legislators on your behalf? What do you want them to know about the status and needs of children and families affected by adoption and foster care?
   
   
5. How did Shelly turn her life around? What is she doing now?
   
   
6. When the U.S. General Accounting Office examined the health status of young children in foster care in New York City, Los Angeles County, and Philadelphia County, what did it learn?
   
   
7. What is different about the adoption promotion materials developed through Under One Sky’s camp-based program?
   
   
8. What is the Traveling Heart Gallery and when and where will it be when it is closest to where you live?
   
   
9. How old is North Carolina’s SaySo (Strong Able Youth Speaking Out)? How many members and chapters does SaySo have today?
   
   
10. What are three things that helped Angelina Spencer move from being a sexual abuse survivor to someone who is really thriving?

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