Supporting the Transition into Adulthood [UNC]
Teaches strategies resource parents can use—including North Carolina’s LINKS goals and Transitional Living Plan—to help youth in foster care successfully transition into adulthood. Includes candid, practical suggestions from an experienced foster parent. (1 hr.)
New Course – This course provides North Carolina resource parents information about guardianship, which is a route to permanence for some youth in foster care. (1 hr.) Take course…
This 1-hour course helps resource parents understand suicide and non-suicidal self-injury in children and adolescents and teaches them how to respond. Take course…
This 4-minute video discusses adolescent brain development and ways child welfare systems inhibit or encourage opportunities for the successful transition to adulthood. To download the report this video is based on, click here.
This 13-minute video explains what CMEs are, who provides them, how to prepare for them, and how they can help you and your child.
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Listen as alumni of foster care show you what it means to embrace resilience as an identity. Come along as we share our journeys from trauma to triumph.
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This 3-minute video shows that when we invest in proven strategies that help strengthen families, we prevent child abuse and neglect before it even happens.
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Lifebooks are tools that help answer young people’s questions about their life stories.
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Describes steps parents should take to ensure children and youth are safe online.
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