Permanency

Read this article to reflect on the importance of authentic partnerships with youth and families to achieve permanency for children and youth waiting to be adopted.

Explore this tip sheet to learn about child welfare agency and court responsibilities related to APPLA provisions and strategies to achieve permanency.

Use the four domain areas of the Parent Partner Program Navigator to learn the key components of designing and implementing successful parent partner programs.

This podcast shares the work of the Center for Family Life, an organization that aims to stabilize families by providing an array of neighborhood-based family and social services in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Foster care is one of their programs, and families involved in the center’s foster care program are linked to other services to address the family’s specific needs.

The greater use of demographic, geographic and psychographic data is enabling companies and organizations learn more about who is, and who isn’t, likely to support a product or idea. This podcast helps product designers, sales teams, political campaigns and advertising agencies recognize their target audience. The concept is if more time and energy is spent on a group’s target audience and less on those unreceptive to their product or service, the group will see a greater return on their investment.

This podcast provides details about the New Mexico Regional Resource Navigator program. A program that assigns navigators to work exclusively with specific regions of the state to guide families through the assessment and licensing processes. By enhancing communication and developing relationships between navigators and prospective foster families, the program intends to increase the number of available foster families throughout the state.

Diligent recruitment is the systematic process through which child welfare agencies recruit, retain, and support foster and adoptive families that reflect the ethnic diversity of children awaiting placements. Find resources below explaining best practices, implementation strategies, and practical examples related to diligent recruitment in agency settings. Explore the resources that Child Welfare Information Gateway has identified about diligent recruitment.

When children are placed in out-of-home care (also called foster care), it is imperative that child welfare agencies find safe, permanent homes for them as quickly as possible. In most circumstances, children can be reunited with their families, but in some cases children find homes with relatives or adoptive families. Explore the resources that Child Welfare Information Gateway has identified about achieving and maintaining permanency.

Consult this guide to learn how agencies and courts work together to use Another Planned Permanent Living Arrangements (APPLAs).

Explore resources that can help agencies build capacity for authentic engagement of youth in decision-making about their lives.

To help young people achieve normalcy, child welfare agencies should involve them in permanency planning, listen to their needs and goals, connect them to support services, and help them build and maintain new long-term relationships. Find resources for agencies to engage young people in normalcy conversations in this Spotlight On message.