Kinship Caregivers Play a Vital Role in North Carolina: The Latest Issue of Fostering Perspectives
When a child or youth enters foster care, family members and “like-family” friends are often the first ones child welfare agencies approach to care for children until they can safely return home to their biological family. Becoming a kinship caregiver is both a...
Release of New and Revised Juvenile Forms by the Administrative Office of the Courts
On October 1, 2019, the NC Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) released one new juvenile form and revised several existing juvenile forms. See the links to these forms below with a brief summary from AOC describing the specific revision. We have also linked a...
Legal Name Changes for Adults and Children
In North Carolina, there is a statutory process for legally changing an individual’s name. While similar in process, there are different requirements for name changes for adults and children. There are multiple personal reasons an individual would want to change their...
How to Raise Resilient Compassionate Children: An Article by Angenette Stephenson
Fostering Perspectives is a publication created for foster and adoptive parents in North Carolina. It is sponsored by the NC Division of Social Services and the Family and Children’s Resource Center at UNC Chapel Hill and issued twice a year. Each issue covers a...Page 1 of 1