Vermont Permanency Convening Resources & Reading

Thank you for attending the 2007 Vermont Permanency Convening. We hope you found the day filled with useful information and renewed energy toward ensuring that Vermont’s youth grow into adulthood with the highest level of legal and emotional permanence.

The following resource list includes web sites, suggested readings, and materials from the workshops presented at the convening. All files are Adobe PDF files.

Morning Panel

• Questions Generated by Youth and Young Adult Panel

• Youth Perceptions of Post-Adoption Services
  

It’s My Life. Shouldn’t I Have a Say?
(Youth Workshop)

      Speak Out Team Resources

• Ensure Foster Children Have A Bright Future: An Act to Promote Youth Advocacy

• Youth Advocacy Agenda: A Commitment to Encouraging Success for Adolescents in Foster Care

• Youth Advocacy Press Release

• Permission Letter for Kids and School

• Support Permanency for all Children: An Act to Support Permanency Placement of Foster Children

• We’ve Got Something to Say II: About Speak Out Team

      State of Massachusetts Resources

• State of Massachusetts Act to Promote Youth Advocacy

• First Do No Harm

• State of Massachusetts Act to Support Permanent Placement of Foster Children
  

Talking with Youth about Birth Family Substance Abuse / Presenter: Karen (Margolis) Crowley

• NIDA Drug Addiction Definition

• Risk and Protective Factors for Children of Alcoholics

• Ten Tips for Families Considering Adopting a Child Who Has Been Prenatally Exposed To Alcohol or Other Drugs

• Tips for Prevention
  

Related Websites

• National Center on Substance
  Abuse and Child Welfare (PowerPoint Presentations) (http://www.ncsacw.samhsa.gov/
  presentations.asp)

• Al-Anon and Alateen
  (http://www.al-anon.alateen.org/)

• Vermont Adoption Consortium (http://www.vtadoption.org/)

• The Child Trauma Academy (http://www.childtraumaacademy.org/)
  

Meeting the Permanency Needs of Teens /
Presenter: Kim Stevens

• Brain and Trauma Recovery: Implications for Practice and Policy

• “Developmental Trauma Merits DSM Diagnosis” from American Psychiatric Association

• Enhancing Permanency for Older Youth in Out-of-Home Care

• “Meeting the Challenge: Youth as Advocates” from Common Ground

• Youth Empowerment and Adolescent Permanency: A Paradigm Merge
  

Preparing for the Move from Foster Care to Adoption / Presenters: Nancy Birge, MSW and Leanne Lachance, M.Ed.

• Bibliography for Parents & Professionals

• Developmental Stages & Tasks
  

General Convening Materials

• A Call to Action from Casey Family Services


• Declaration of Commitment


• Is Kinship Care Good for Kids?


• Nothing for Us without Us: A Youth-Led Development Starter Kit


• Permanency Pact


• Roundtable Newsletter


• Selected Permanency References by Casey Family Service & The Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice


• Time for Reform: Supporting Relatives in Providing Foster Care and Permanent Families for Children


• Voices Carry: Recommendations of Youth People in the Foster Care System


• Youth Involvement in Systems of Care: A Guide to Empowerment

Permanency-Focused Websites

• The Annie E. Casey Foundation (http://www.aecf.org)

• Adoption Learning Partners (http://www.adoptionlearningpartners.org
  /courses/overview.cfm)

• California Permanency for Youth Project
  (http://www.cpyp.org/)

• Casey Family Services
  (http://www.caseyfamilyservices.org)

• Child Welfare Information Gateway (http://www.childwelfare.gov/

• Child Welfare League of America
  National Data Analysis System
  (ndas.cwla.org/)

• Children’s Bureau
  (http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/)

• Foster Club
  (http://www.fosterclub.com/
  grownups/index.cfm)

• National Child Welfare Resource
  Center for Youth Development
  (http://www.nrcys.ou.edu/yd/)

• The National Resource Center for
  Family-Centered Practice and
  Permanency Planning at the Hunter
  College School of Social Work
  (http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/
  socwork/nrcfcpp/index.html)

• You Gotta Believe
  (http://www.yougottabelieve.org/)