NIPFC December 2023 Blast

Hello again—as promised in the October blast, we wanted to apprise you of more updates and products developed by NIPFC and other entities. Beginning with our own website, we have just updated the site to be more user friendly and highlight who we are, our approach, our training and search offerings, and some of the products we have developed. Our work isn’t done, but please let us know at nipfc@senecacenter.org if you have any feedback or suggestions. We also wanted to share the link of the November webinar we participated in, Creating a Kin-First Culture Through Partnerships with Service Providers, which is now available (see below).

We are excited to share that one of our favorite documentaries, From Place to Place, which we have shown and recommended in our work across the country and internationally, is now available on YouTube! If you haven’t already watched it, or it has been a minute, we encourage you to view it.

Included in this blast is also a link to the September release of 3 new regulations to support children and families in foster care by the Biden-Harris administration.

Finally, we encourage you to read The Role of Enduring Relationships on Youth Outcomes brief authored by the California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP) TAY-Hub, and we also provide a link to the TAY-Hub website for other briefs that have been generated.

FamilyPermanency.org has a new look!

The main page of our website has undergone renovations, and we would love to hear your feedback! If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions on how to improve your experience, please feel free to e-mail nipfc@senecacenter.org.

View our website here: www.familypermanency.org

Creating a Kin-First Culture Through Partnerships with Service Providers Webinar

In the previous blast released in October, we highlighted our work with UC Davis and the Center for Excellence and Bob Friend’s participation in a webinar on partnering to achieve a kin-first culture in CA. The webinar was a panel presentation focusing on the potential for child welfare and probation to partner with service providers. Seneca, Wayfinder, and Family Builders shared information about how they team to keep children and youth connected to their families, communities, and tribes.

View the webinar here: Creating a Kin-First Culture Through Partnerships with Service Providers: presented by Seneca, Wayfinder, and Family Builders.

Feature Documentary: From Place to Place

The award-winning documentary “From Place to Place” initially aired in 2011 featured in many local theaters nationally with Matt Anderson often hosting conversations with young people with lived experience in the foster care system and distributed initially via DVDs (how things have changed!), is now available on YouTube.

This documentary follows the lives of three transition-age youth who received little support beyond their social worker after aging out of foster care, their journey to tell their stories and try to change the system, and foretells some of the legislation and value changes that have occurred about the child welfare system in the last decade.

Watch the documentary here: From Place to Place.

New Regulations to Support Children and Families in Foster Care

In honor of National Kinship Care Month this past September, the Biden-Harris Administration released three new regulations to support children and families in the child welfare system. These regulations will: 1) Support kinship caregivers – family members and loved ones who step forward to care for a child in foster care – by making it easier for them to access resources and financial assistance; 2) Protect LGBTQI+ youth in foster care from abuse and mistreatment and ensure they have the services they need to thrive; and 3) Expand access to legal services for children and families at risk of entering or in the child welfare system.

From TAY-Hub: The Role of Enduring Relationships on Youth Outcomes

TAY-Hub (Transition-Age Youth Research & Evaluation Hub) released a peer-reviewed paper titled: The Role of Enduring Relationships on Youth Outcomes. This article discusses two critiques of the child welfare policies for transition-age youth (TAY): 1) Policies strongly emphasize helping TAY build skills for independent living, even though research has found interdependent living to be healthy and normative in emerging adulthood, and 2) Child welfare policies prioritize legal permanence even though many legally “permanent” relationships do not last, and youth tend to define permanence in terms of the love, care, and dependability of a relationship, rather than in biological or legal terms.

Read the article here: The Role of Enduring Relationships on Youth Outcomes.

California Child Welfare Indicators Project (CCWIP) TAY-Hub site link: https://ccwip.berkeley.edu/TAY/

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