1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Let’s All Practice Some Patience; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: The Brydges Family; 3) The Family First Prevention Services Act Can Fund Needed Services and Supports for Older Youth in Foster Care; 4) Aftercare Services are Key to Positive Community Adjustment; 5) 50 SIMPLE SELF-CARE TIPS; 6) “Back to School” with Ernest Henderson, Jr (Podcast); 7) Webinar – The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth
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Dr. Greg Manning’s – Permanency in the News – Week of 9/2/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Supporting Youth in the Employment Realm; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Couple in Their Early Twenties Adopted 5 Kids & They’re Not Done Giving Children a Home; 3) What Youth in Foster Care Want is the Same as What Others Want, a Voice; 4) Languishing in Residential Care Made Me Worse. Unconditional Love Helped Get Me Better; 5) Spotsylvania Woman Provides Foster Care to Children with Autism; 6) How Adolescent Brain Science Supports Youth Engagement in Court Hearings and Case Planning; 7) Foster Youth Need More Than Education to Build a Stable Life
Dr. Greg Manning’s – Permanency in the News – Week of 8/19/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Permanency Readiness – Why are They Not Ready and Willing?; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Jen’s Adoption Search & Reunion Story; 3) Adopted Children Must Have Closer Ties to Their Birth Families; 4) Family Instability and Children’s Social Development; 5) National Academics: Adolescent Science Should Transform Systems; 6) Lessons from Mister Rogers; 7) Foster Kids: Lies and Truth
Dr. Greg Manning – Permanency in the News – Week of 8/12/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Connections, Relationships, Permanency, and THEN Permanent Placement (hopefully) – Part 5 – Permanent Placement; 2) Love Times Six: Meet the Foster Mom Who Adopted a Half-Dozen Sisters; 3) My “Six Pillars” of Trauma-Informed Parenting; 4) Supportive Relationships and Active Skill-Building Strengthen the Foundations of Resilience; 5) I was Born into Foster Care. A Mentor Would Have Made a Big Difference in My Life; 6) California Bill Seeks to Ensure New Rights for LGBTQ Foster Youth; 7) What Adopted Children Deserve: Change a Law that Unnecessarily Keeps Kids From Their Birth Parents and Vice Versa
Dr. Greg Manning – Permanency in the News – Week of 8/5/19
1) Permanency Tip of the Week: Connections, Relationships, Permanency, and THEN Permanent Placement (hopefully) – Part 4 – Permanency; 2) Permanency Success Story of the Week: Couple Keeps 6 Siblings Together Through Adoption – There’s Lots of Love and Chaos’; 3) You Have to See the Reunion of These Toddler Besties Who Were Both Adopted; 4) The Promise of Adolescence; 5) Trump Administration Approves Vouchers for Housing After Foster Care; 6) Bridge – Working to Connect Barren County (KY) Families to Critical Resources, Prevent Children from Entering Foster Care System; 7) Advice on Family First from HSITAG Members