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NIPFC Permanency Blast
February 13th
, 2019
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Greetings!
We have moved! At least our web page has.
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We are now located at www.familypermanency.org Our previous search materials, podcasts, blasts, trainer bios and fees are on the site, and we are in the process of restoring our vast archive of resources that you have used so frequently in the past. As we continue to build our website out, we will have new features in store, so stay tuned! For more details about the changes, see below.
We have plenty of content for you in this first full blast of 2019. We release our 7th episode in our "Let's Have a Conversation" podcast series in which Director Bob Friend converses with Kim Stevens of NACAC about her work with youth and adults with lived experience in the foster care system, and how that work informs her practice as well as organizational practice.
We share the exciting announcement that Carol J. Bishop, LMFT Statewide Adoption Policy Director, Regional Executive Director at Seneca Family of Agencies received an Adoptions Excellence Award in 2018, honoring her work which has positively affected the lives of thousands of children, youth and adoptive families during her fifty-four years working in child welfare!! Congratulations and well deserved, Carol!
We share current employment opportunities with Kinnect. Our previous podcast "A Story of Partnership" highlighted the work between Kinnect and the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition. Their expansion continues to address the impact of the opioid crisis in Ohio via better family engagement and urgent attention to children and youth's needs to avoid entering or languishing in the foster care system.
We share a modification to a recently shared article "Overcoming Barriers to Making Meaningful Reasonable Efforts Findings" from Judge Len Edwards.
We include the Winter Volume of "insights" from the California Child Welfare Co-Investment Partnership, detailing progress on California's Continuing Care Reform and providing some thoughts and analysis on the Family First Prevention Services Act.
We provide the
Kempe Center's recently released call for Proposals from the International Conference on Innovations in Family Engagement. This conference will be held in San Diego, CA from November 19-22. We do not expect any polar vortex episodes in San Diego, so please consider submitting a proposal to present your good work at this conference, and mark your calendars now! Also please distribute this announcement to your colleagues!
Look for more content soon, including an article and a new podcast!
Happy
Listening and Reading!
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The National Institute for Permanent Family Connectedness
At our new website you will be able to find:
- Home
- Blast Archive
- Podcast Archive
- What is NIPFC
- Training and Consultation information:
- Staff and trainer bios
- Training menu and descriptions
- Pricing and fees
- Resources and Publications
- Currently under construction
- Seneca Search Services
- Description
- Accounts and Pricing
- Link for search request
- Link for contract template
- Contact Page
Toll Free Number:
888-839-9760
6925 Chabot Rd., Oakland, CA 94618
- Seneca Search Questions/Accounts:
- Clif Venable-Lead Search Specialist
1-800-381-0350
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Let's Have A Conversation
We're excited to release another episode of our podcast "Listening to and Learning from
Lived Experience." Program manager at NACAC Kim Stevens directs efforts to expand post-adoption services throughout the United States and Canada, providing training and support to parent and youth leaders. She sits down with Bob and discusses how her work with those who living in/or have lived experience in foster care continues to shape and sharpen her perspectives, advocacy, consultation and program management.
To learn more about Kim's work, Click on the links below:
Previous Episodes
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Adoption Excellence Awards for the Year 2018
The Adoption Excellence Awards recognize outstanding accomplishments in achieving permanency for America's children waiting in foster care. An annual program that grew out of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, these awards honor States, local agencies, private organizations, courts, businesses, individuals, and families making key contributions to increasing the number of children from foster care who are adopted or placed in other permanent homes.
Click Here
to read the list of 2018's Awardees and their contributions
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Modifications: Overcoming Barriers to Making Meaningful Reasonable Efforts Findings
"Certain changes in juvenile court practice can lead to more meaningful reasonable efforts findings. Granted, there are many barriers that prevent judges from making these findings. This article explains what reasonable efforts findings the judge must make, some of the most challenging barriers that prevent the judge from making these findings, and a solution that could make reasonable efforts findings more meaningful.
"Reasonable efforts" findings are judicial rulings that the child welfare agency (the agency) has or has not provided appropriate services at different times during a child welfare case. According to federal and state laws judges must make reasonable efforts findings at least three distinct times during the case.[1]"
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Child Welfare Policy and Progress
This issue of insights provides an overview of the latest legislative developments in California, including data and perspectives on the policy and practice transformation taking place with the Continuum of Care Reform (CCR). Beyond a comprehensive summary of child welfare state legislation, this issue also includes a discussion on the key provisions of the Family First Prevention Services Act. The issue concludes with recommendations for how to continue bolstering supports for California's children and families
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Due to the growth in partnerships and funding, new staff and board members will help ensure that we have the operational foundation to support our expanding programs. Our top priority positions include:
- Director of Administrative Services (Cleveland)
- Project Director for the Affirm Me program, Chosen Affirming Family Model (Greater Cleveland)
- 30 Days to Family® Ohio Regional Coordinator (Northwest Ohio)
- 30 Days to Family® Ohio Coach (Multiple Ohio locations)
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International Conference on Innovations in Family Engagement
The Kempe Center, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, is excited to announce the Call for Proposals for the International Conference on Innovations in Family Engagement, November 19-22, 2019, in San Diego, California. The conference encourages a focus on the effort being made through Differential Response, Family Group Decision Making and other family engagement approaches to achieve genuine partnership with families. This Call for Proposals has been created to seek applicants from across the U.S. and internationally to present on a range of topics.
The deadline for presentation submissions is April 1, 2019
Click Here to view the 2019 Call fro Proposals
For more information and to submit proposals, Click Here to visit Kempe's Website
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National Institute for Permanent Family Connectedness
6925 Chabot Road, Oakland, CA 94618 ● 888-839-9760
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