Robert G. Lewis
M.Ed., M.S.W., L.I.C.S.W
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Below is a list of links to a series of 46 archived, one page articles in PDF, Word and HTML formats that constituted my newsletter for 6 years. Colleagues' comments on these issues were highly useful as I developed training curricula, workshops and free resources on permanence. I am eager for your comments. What do you think? Email me at Bob@RGLewis.com

Issue #1- Teens Have a Right to Their Anger

Issue #2 - “Unadoptable” needs to be lifted off all our children.

Issue #3 - Is talking to a teens about permanent families just setting them up for more rejection?

Issue #4 - Getting there is part of the outcome

Issue #5 - Children need their own stories

Issue #6 - Permanency is more mending than making

Issue #7 - For teens the best recruitment of families is completely child specific.

Issue #8 - If we use the ideas behind the Adoption and Safe Families Act, we can reach the goals of ASFA with less grief.

Issue #9 - The teenage NO

Issue #10 - The Shame of foster care

Issue #11 - What makes “adoption” so hard to say?

Issue #12 - We can't make their losses go away

Vol. 2, Issue #1 - Reasonable efforts for adoption

Vol. 2, Issue #2 - Shared Parenting

Vol. 2, Issue #3 - Adoption is Shared Parenting

Vol. 2, Issue #4 - Secret Power

Vol. 2, Issue #5 - "A Placement is not permanence"

Vol. 2, Issue #6 - Unparenting

Vol. 2, Issue #7 - Brothers & Sisters

Vol. 2, Issue #8 - All Parents Are Resources

Vol. 2, Issue #9 - Finding Strengths in the Same Places

Vol. 2, Issue #10-Belief is Transformative

Vol. 2, Issue #11 - Revaluing Foster Parenting

Vol. 2, Issue #12 - Do we really want aftercare?

Vol. 3, Issue #1 - Rethinking Concurrent Planning

Vol. 3, Issue #2 - Who Do You Want At Your Next Employee Review?

Vol. 3, Issue #3 - Focusing on Permanence for Adolescents will achieve it

Vol. 3, Issue #4 - The Challenge of Shared Parenting

Vol. 3, Issue #5 - What Poisons Adoption?

Vol. 3, Issue #6 - Families Provide Social Capital

Vol. 3, Issue #7 - Of Course They Say NO!

Vol. 3, Issue #8 - What Does It Take?

Vol. 3, Issue #9 - Making Permanence What We Do

Vol. 3, Issue #10 - Kin Adoption

Vol. 3, Issue #11 - Independent Living Starts with Families

Vol. 3, Issue #12 - Three Steps To Adoption

Vol. 4, Issue #1 - Finding Family

Vol. 4, Issue #2 - Holidays and Boundaries

Vol. 4, Issue #3 - Preparing Teens for Family (Re)Connection

Vol. 4, Issue #4 - Forcing Adoption on Every Eighteen-Year-Old

Vol. 4, Issue #5 - No Youth is a Family-Connection Write-Off

Vol. 4, Issue #6 - What About Belonging for Those Young People Who are Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, or Questioning?

Vol. 4, Issue #7 - Imagine Permanence as Intuitive as Safety

Vol. 4, Issue #8 - Finding Families with Adolescents

Vol. 5, Issue #1 - Shared Parenting: Right From The Start

Vol. 5. Issue #2 - Shared Parenting: What is it?

Vol. 5. Issue #3 - Shared Parenting: Where to begin?

Vol. 5. Issue #4 - Shared Parenting: Assessment