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August 2007, Volume 1

Connections Count

Resources Connecting Foster Teens with Families for Life

From the Annie E. Casey Foundation/Casey Family Services

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Making It Possible
Youth & Family Perspectives
In Depth
Data Snapshots
What Do You Think?
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Making It
Possible

Need strategies to involve birth families in your state CFSR? New tools can help.

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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 Coraluzza,
foster parent

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What Do You Think?


Which family search practice are you employing to help increase youth permanence?

  • A. Youth Interviews
  • B. Case Mining
  • C. Internet Searches
  • D. The "Snowball" Technique
  • E. Combination of Practices
  • F. None

Poll Results

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C 0% 0 votes
D 0% 0 votes
E 0% 0 votes
F 0% 0 votes

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Data Snapshots

Ties with birth families—however complicated—are important to older youth in care, two different studies say.

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What Do You Think?

Which family search practice are you employing to help increase youth permanence?

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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 information, tools, research, and data emerging on youth permanency in child welfare.

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