Fostering Perspectives is sponsored by the North Carolina Division of Social Services, SaySo (Strong Able Youth Speaking Out), and the Family and Children’s Resource Program at the UNC School of Social Work. These organizations contribute to the development and production of each issue in an effort to improve the quality of foster care in North Carolina.
Critical Partners for Permanency
NOVEMBER 2022 • VOL. 26, NO. 1
North Carolina is committed to permanency. It has declared:
Children and youth in the foster care program will experience stability in foster care and achieve permanency in a timely manner and youth who do not achieve permanency will transition successfully into adulthood.
As child welfare workers, judges, and others pursue this goal, their success often hinges on contributions made by the people who care for children and youth in foster care on a day-to-day basis: foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers. Resource parents are critical partners for anyone who wants to achieve permanency.
We celebrate this fact and want to provide information and resources to support their success in this essential role. That’s why this issue is filled with stories and advice from birth parents, young people in foster care, and others about shared parenting, maintaining connections with siblings and natural supports, and other topics. We hope you find it helpful.
Children and youth in the foster care program will experience stability in foster care and achieve permanency in a timely manner and youth who do not achieve permanency will transition successfully into adulthood.
As child welfare workers, judges, and others pursue this goal, their success often hinges on contributions made by the people who care for children and youth in foster care on a day-to-day basis: foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers. Resource parents are critical partners for anyone who wants to achieve permanency.
We celebrate this fact and want to provide information and resources to support their success in this essential role. That’s why this issue is filled with stories and advice from birth parents, young people in foster care, and others about shared parenting, maintaining connections with siblings and natural supports, and other topics. We hope you find it helpful.
Resource Parents and NC’s Permanency Commitment
MAY 2021 • VOL. 25, NO. 2
In North Carolina’s 2020-2024 Child and Family Services Plan, a 5-year strategic plan for its child welfare system, our state makes the following commitment to permanency:
Children and youth in the foster care program will experience stability in foster care and achieve permanency in a timely manner and youth who do not achieve permanency will transition successfully into adulthood.
This issue of Fostering Perspectives spotlights the important role foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers play in North Carolina’s efforts to live up to this commitment.
Children and youth in the foster care program will experience stability in foster care and achieve permanency in a timely manner and youth who do not achieve permanency will transition successfully into adulthood.
This issue of Fostering Perspectives spotlights the important role foster and adoptive parents and kinship caregivers play in North Carolina’s efforts to live up to this commitment.
COVID-19: Rising to the occasion
NOVEMBER 2020 • VOL. 25, NO. 1
Who can you count on when times are hard? If the COVID-19 crisis has taught me anything, it’s that when challenges arise, resource parents step up.
How do I know? Through my work overseeing the licensing of North Carolina’s foster parents I have had the privilege to hear about some of the many extraordinary actions resource parents have taken since the pandemic began, despite the risk to themselves.
How do I know? Through my work overseeing the licensing of North Carolina’s foster parents I have had the privilege to hear about some of the many extraordinary actions resource parents have taken since the pandemic began, despite the risk to themselves.
Foster care as a support for families, not a substitute for parents
MAY 2020 • VOL. 24, NO. 2
The theme of this issue of Fostering Perspectives is “foster care as a support for families, not a substitute for parents.” Foster care is intended to be a short-term intervention that strengthens parents’ protective capacities so they can safely care for their children. The goal is almost always for children and youth to return to their families.
