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Making It Possible
Need strategies to involve birth families in your state CFSR? New tools can help.
learn more>Resources and Tools
Two new resources related to dads as permanency resources: What about the Dads? Child Welfare Agencies’ Efforts to Identify, Locate, and Involve Nonresident Fathers (PDF) and Fatherhood.gov, the new federal clearinghouse with sections for researchers and policymakers.
Questions about kinship care among social workers, policymakers, state legislators, or community partners? See Is Kinship Care Good for Kids? (PDF)
Youth and Family Perspectives
“Kayla is like a complicated plant. She has roots with us— her adoptive family—and roots with her birth family. To be healthy as an adult, the more support she has in place, the better.”
Donna Coraluzzo, foster parent
read more >About Connections Count
Produced by the Annie E. Casey Foundation/Casey Family Services, Connections Count is an electronic newsletter focusing on best practices information, tools, research, and data emerging on youth permanence in child welfare at local, state, and national levels. Connections Count highlights successful youth permanency work achieved by states following their participation in the 2006 and 2008 National Convenings on Youth Permanence, strategies for overcoming barriers to permanence, and peer-to-peer exchanges about successes and challenges reported by on-the-ground staff, administrators, youth, and their families.
Connections Count aims to “clutter bust,” allowing readers access to up-to-date, expertly chosen information on youth permanency policy, practice, and research. It creates a community that will effectively advance the power, possibility, and priority of youth permanence.
Executive Editors:
Sarah B. Greenblatt, Director, Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice
Lee Mullane, Communications Director, Casey Family Services
Editorial Team:
Roye Anastasio-Bourke, Public Affairs Manager, Casey Family Services
Madelyn Freundlich, Child Welfare Consultant
Leah Glasheen, Senior Information Associate, Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice
John Hodgins, Senior Communications Associate, Casey Family Services
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State Spotlight
Ties with birth families—however complicated—are important to older youth in care, two different studies say.
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About Connections Count
Produced by the Annie E. Casey Foundation/Casey Family Services, Connections Count is an electronic newsletter focusing on best practices, tools, research, and data on youth permanence in child welfare.
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