“Smarter, Stronger, and Kinder”
Stephenson & Fleming, LLP was established to serve all children and families. Today, we intentionally recommit ourselves to that mission and pledge our specific ongoing commitment to function as advocates for families we serve with Black children and/or Black...
New Issue of Fostering Perspectives: Ensuring Foster Care Is a Support for Families
Foster care should be a support for families, not a substitute for parents. Shared parenting can help us make this vision of foster care a reality. In shared parenting, resource parents cultivate positive, supportive relationships with birth parents, giving them more...
Activities for Foster, Adoptive, Kinship, and Biological Families During Covid-19
During this unprecedented time of social distancing and quarantine due to Covid-19, we have the amazing ability to use technology to connect, learn, and be entertained. Many families are also seeking opportunities to engage their children in new online activities and...
How Stephenson & Fleming, LLP is responding to the Covid-19 Pandemic and NC’s Stay at Home Order
At Stephenson & Fleming, LLP we are working hard to maintain the health and wellness of our employees and clients while also continuing to meet their legal needs during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The State of North Carolina is under a "Stay at Home Order" signed by...
Angie Stephenson’s Work with the Dilley Pro-Bono Project Featured by the UNC School of Social Work
Angie Stephenson spent one week in Dilley, Texas, in November as a volunteer with the Dilley Pro Bono Project. The project provides legal representation to mothers and children seeking asylum from extreme violence in Central America and other locations. The UNC School...
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...