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ITAO Book Club Starts New “Live” Meetings

ITAO is trying something new with the Book Club this year by changing from an on-line forum to meeting in person! We will talk about our current book using questions from the DHS Alternative Verification Form, making it easy to fill in the DHS form to receive the 5.25...

National Center for Child Welfare Excellence Offers Curricula

The National Center for Child Welfare Excellence has produced several curricula related to key issues in child welfare. Titles include: • Reaching Higher: A Curriculum for Foster/Adoptive Parents and Kinship Caregivers Caring for LGBTQ Youth • Reaching Higher:...

ITAO Book Club

ITAO’s virtual Book Club was developed for resource, adoptive, guardianship, permanency and kinship families to provide support and at the same time add to their expertise related to the needs of the children and youth in their home.  We finished our first book,...

EDUCATION IS THE LIFELINE FOR YOUTH IN FOSTER CARE

According to the National Working Group on Foster Care and Education’s October 2011 report, “Success in school can be a positive counterweight to the abuse, neglect, separation and impermanence experienced by children and youth in foster care.  Education...

Education Success for Children in Foster Care

Hawaii was lucky to have Kristin Kelly, JD, from the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law in Washington D.C., tips & strategies to a group of resource caregivers and service providers on August 16, 2011, to help us know how to: • Keep children...