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This Webinar underscores the value of prioritizing permanency, which means providing a child with a "forever family" which is what our children and youth need, deserve and are entitled to under the law. The Permanency Bench Cards were published by the Judicial Council of California and developed by Gail Johnson Vaughan, Psy.D., in collaboration with Kelly Beck, J.D., of the National Institute for Permanency Family Connectedness at Seneca Family of Agencies.
Presenters:
Gail Johnson Vaughan, Psy.D., has devoted her 35-year professional career to removing the barriers that prevent children in foster care from achieving and sustaining permanent families. She learned her trade as she helped develop specialized permanency services with Sierra Adoption Services (now Stanford Sierra Child and Family Services) and went on to be an effective advocate to remove the barrier beliefs that made it difficult for child welfare practice and policy needed for proven-effective youth permanence services to take hold. Her advocacy activities have included leadership in writing and passing permanency legislation, training at the state and national level, membership in key child welfare collaborations, targeted permanency consultation, mentorship of upcoming leaders and authoring a number of articles, policy guides and other publications focused on permanency.
Kelly Lynn Beck, J.D., is an attorney and trainer with the National Institute for Permanent Family Connectedness at Seneca Family of Agencies. She is also a consultant for the Northern Academy at UC Davis Human Services as well as a court-appointed counsel for parents and children in dependency actions. She is the author of several articles, including “Maintaining Family Relationships for Children in the Child Welfare System,” (ABA); “How Reasonable Efforts Leads to Emotional and Legal Permanence,” (Capital University Law Review), and “Unlocking Reasonable Efforts: Kinship is Key” (Shriver Institute). Beck travels nationally providing training and strategic planning sessions for judicial officers, attorneys, social workers, CASA, service providers, resource parents and many other dependency and delinquency court stakeholders on a variety of permanency-related topics.