Vol. 8, No. 1• November 2003

Get In-Service Training Credit for Reading this Newsletter!

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. Questions about this method of gaining in-service credit? Contact the N.C. Division of Social Services at 919/733-7672.

In-Service Quiz, FP v8#1

1. What two groups adopt the majority of children from foster care, and how many foster children in North Carolina are currently waiting to be adopted?
   
   
2. What kind of car does Virginia want to drive when she grows up?
   
   
3. Name three things you can do to help an at-risk student survive middle school.
   
   
4. What is the Multiple Response System?
   
   
5. What amendment to the Constitution did the Stumbos invoke in their appeal to the N.C. Supreme Court?
   
   
6. Who is Ruth Easterling?
   
   
7. Nationally, what percentage of youths transitioning out of foster care enter
   college?
   
   
8. When can North Carolina foster parents next become certified to teach MAPP/GPS?
   
   
9. Name three things that Melinda Medina did while she was in high school.
   
   
10. Fostering Perspectives sponsors art and writing contests for foster children that feature cash awards for contest winners. What is the theme for the next writing contest?

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