reTHINK Permanency Conference

Unlocking Pathways from Foster Care to Family

Explore and examine all paths to the family for youth experiencing foster care. Rethink how professionals and advocates can work together to advance child well-being through reunification, kinship care, custody, guardianship, and adoption in North Carolina.

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Inspiring Support For Paths From Foster Care To Family

Save the date for this important conversation shifting the narrative around child well-being

June 15, 2023
McKimmon Conference and Training Center at NC State

Prepare to rethink how family service professionals and advocates support youth in pursuit of their forever homes. This free event invites you to explore all paths to family for youth experiencing foster care. Be inspired to discover innovative approaches to help youth achieve permanency through reinstatement of parental rights, reunification, kinship care, custody, guardianship, and adoption in North Carolina. Learn from social work thought leaders and families with lived experience navigating the child welfare system in breakout sessions and during keynote presentations.

Wake AHEC CEUs

Wake AHEC will provide 0.6 CEU to participants upon completion of this activity. A participant must attend 100% of the program to receive credit. Partial credit will not be awarded.

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Family Champion Awards by
the Institute for Family

This inaugural awards ceremony will honor social workers and policymakers in North Carolina who exhibit extraordinary commitment to helping youth who are experiencing foster care find safe, loving, stable homes with families. The Award is sponsored and organized by the Institute for Family at the Children’s Home Society of North Carolina and underwritten by HealthyBlue. Awardees will be announced at the reTHINK Permanency Conference: Unlocking Pathways from Foster Care to Family.

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The reTHINK Permanency Conference is hosted in partnership with North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services and hosted by the Children’s Home Society of North Carolina.

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