Resources For Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
National Kinship Care Month September is National Kinship Care Month. Kinship care is the full-time care and nurturing of children by relatives, members of their Tribes or clans, godparents, stepparents, fictive kin, or extended family member. Some kin are related to...
August is Child Support Awareness Month
Child support are financial payments made by the parent of a minor child for the financial benefit of that child. Child support services are available to parents, alleged fathers, non-parent caretakers, minor children, social services agencies and judicial officials....
May is National Foster Care Month
Each May, organizations throughout the United States work to acknowledge the foster families, adoptive families, kinship and family members, child welfare professionals, judicial professionals, volunteers, mentors, and policy makers who support the well-being of...
Angie Stephenson Serves as a Panelist at the UNC School of Social Work’s Bobby Boyd Leadership Lecture Series
The Bobby Boyd Leadership Lecture series recently returned to the UNC School of Social Work. On March 29th, Angie Stephenson was a panelist on “Power, Privilege, and Positionality: Social Work Leadership Levers.” The event focused on legal leaders in NC who have an...
Seeking Information About Biological Family Members After Adoption
In NC, adoption records are sealed following the finalization of an adoption. This means that if a member of a family involved in adoption wants to find out about a biological family member who was adopted or an adoptee wants to know more about or identify their...Page 1 of 4