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Resources and Tools
How to search for family – and why family is so important – is the subject of Iowa’s Completing the Circle: Uncovering, Discovering, and Creating Connections for Your Foster and Adoptive Children.
What’s on the minds of American Indian and Alaska Native youth? Focus groups of youth ages 10 to 17 from 20 tribes offer insights. Findings are now available online.
A rich trove of materials associated with the 2005 federal open adoption demonstration projects – assessment and evaluation tools, training curricula, and more – is now available online.
What creates barriers to adoption? Ruth McRoy’s latest research on the subject is published by the Collaboration to AdoptUsKids. See the report and a related video
A recent study from the Urban Institute says nearly half of kids aging out of care in Los Angeles had at least monthly contact with birth moms and grandparents; more than three quarters had regular contact with siblings.
Youth and Family Perspectives
Because of her permanency pact, Lupe says, she now has the “ability to dream.” Lupe described her need for family to StoryCorps during the 2008 National Convening on Youth Permanence.
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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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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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