Calendar Template - TFI Family Services, Inc.
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DEVOTED<br />
TO THE<br />
stRENGTH<br />
OF FAMILY<br />
Think Tanks for Child Welfare<br />
The Kansas Permanency Roundtables (PRT) engaged leading child welfare professionals in a brainstorming session<br />
about possible permanency strategies for youth in foster care. <strong>TFI</strong> <strong>Family</strong> <strong>Services</strong>’ Chief Operations Officer Shirley<br />
Dwyer was part of the PRT design team comprised of leadership from the Kansas Department for Children and Families<br />
(DCF), private child welfare contractors, judiciary, academia, mental health, developmental disabilities and national<br />
partner Casey <strong>Family</strong> Programs. At the PRT, participants discussed what DCF deemed the “toughest” cases – youth<br />
entering foster care at age 13, older youth who desire adoption but have no identified resource and youth whose parental<br />
rights have been terminated. The Roundtables sought not to find quick solutions, but rather to stimulate thinking and<br />
discussion, with state policy, adoption and mental health experts present to address barriers together.
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