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NIPFC Permanency Blast
July 23rd
, 2019
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Hello Readers,
We are re-releasing our Blast from earlier this month. There was a glitch in our system and not all of our links performed as planned. The corrections have been made and everything is working accordingly.
Please take another look at our website and let us know of your comments and suggestions.
Enjoy!
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Greetings!
Our first blast since March reflects a very busy travel/training schedule in May & June, and also dedication to updating and rebuilding our website to better reflect our beliefs, approach and range of trainings offered. We encourage you to visit and view our media, resources and publications, training, and search pages. Play around with the buttons and links, let us know what you think. We will be continuing to update and improve the site during the next few weeks.
Our podcast, Let's Have a Conversation, which we launched on Anchor, is now also available on 7 other platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Listen and subscribe!
Child Trends has released their final report, Evaluation of the Upfront Family Finding Pilot, with results and discoveries of a family finding pilot that was started in 2016
in Los Angeles County. This effort is designed to identify non-custodial parents, improve the engagement with fathers and their family members, and to increase the involvement of "family" in decisions affecting their kin. These early results are very promising, including that some of the pilot sites have dramatically increased their ability and capacity to identify family and to support kin to live with family members even when government oversight is deemed necessary.
The California Child Welfare C0-Investment Partnership recently released their Summer 2019 volume of insights, Understanding Trauma to Promote Healing in Child Welfare. This is the first of a two-part edition to share definitions, data, and perspectives to further the understanding of the role of trauma at the individual, family, community and system level and perhaps more importantly, how to promote resilience and healing to improve outcomes for children and families. For this issue, state and county policymakers, pediatricians, judges, social workers, mental health clinicians, and social justice leaders were interviewed to share their insights and recommendations. We provide you with links to both publications below.
Kinnect, Ohio has a monthly newsletter with an archive of past issues going back to their first edition from November, 2017. We've shared a link to their June edition. If you like it, subscribe!
Finally, the Kempe Center's International Conference on Innovations in Family Engagement is open for registration. This conference will be held in San Diego, CA from November 19-22. View all the workshops and presentations being offered in the conference brochure and take advantage of the Early Bird Registration, sale ends October 14th.
The conference was pleased to secure Associate Commissioner Jerry Milner's agreement to provide a keynote address on Thursday November 21!!
Please distribute this announcement to your colleagues, and who can disagree with a trip to San Diego in November?
Happy
Listening and Reading!
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Come Visit the New and Improved NIPFC Website
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We've done some serious construction:
- Updated Graphics
- Unbroken Links
- Easier Navigation
We're still looking to improve our site, and we want your feedback!
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Let's Have A Conversation
LISTEN ON THE GO! YOU CAN FIND OUR PODCAST AT THESE STREAMING SITES:
Or Just Listen by Clicking on the Links Below:
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Child Trends Final Report: Evaluation of the Upfront Family Finding Pilot
Kate Welti, Esther Gross, Alexandria Wilkins, and Karin Malm
November 30, 2018
Over the past two decades, child welfare agencies have strived to identify and engage relatives with whom children can be placed or maintain close family connections during their time in foster care. Many agencies have implemented relative search and engagement interventions, often referred to as family finding.
Prior to the Upfront Family Finding (UFF) pilot, Los Angeles County's Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) focused its family finding efforts on children in care for long periods of time. With the UFF pilot, which started in October 2016, two local offices (Glendora and Santa Fe Springs) conducted family finding when children were first removed from their home, assigning cases to specialized workers who were part of the Permanency Partners Program (P3). P3 workers served children not initially placed with relatives, but the importance of family finding was emphasized to all staff in the pilot offices. The evaluation of the pilot sought to understand whether UFF resulted in more children placed with relatives, more stable relative placements, and more timely reunifications of children with their parents.
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Volume XVII, Summer 2019
Understanding Trauma to Promote Healing in Child Welfare
For child welfare stakeholders, the concept that children and their families come into our systems bearing the burden of traumatic experiences associated with neglect and abuse is not new. What has evolved over the last couple of decades is the science of ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) and understanding of the long-term physical and behavioral health consequences and high societal costs. A landmark study, and the many since that have supported the initial results, have led to a growing consensus on the need for policies and practices to prevent, intervene, and promote healing.
To view the
insights archive or subscribe to future editions,
Click Here
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The newsletter and blog of Kinnect
Kinnect has one fundamental goal: to find permanent family for children who experience foster care. Our work is made possible by our incredible donors, partner organizations, and volunteers. Thank you for your ongoing support!
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Innovations in Family Engagement
in San Diego, November 19-22!
Key Note: Jerry Milner, Children's Bureau
View the Registration Brochure for a Full Listing of Presentations
Join us in San Diego, California from November 19-22, 2019 at the San Diego Marriott Mission Valley. This conference offers a wide range of sessions to enhance knowledge and skills of human service providers, researchers and others interested in innovative approaches in engagement and inclusion of children and families. Whether you are connected to child welfare, youth justice or other systems, or working in a community-based agency, you will find something for you at this one of a kind event.
Check out the
Registration Brochure
for the full listing. We are also offering half-day Post-Conference sessions on Friday morning, November 22. Be sure to register early to take advantage of our discounted rate!
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National Institute for Permanent Family Connectedness
6925 Chabot Road, Oakland, CA 94618 ● 888-839-9760
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