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PACA: Myths and Facts is a recorded webinar exploring North Carolina's new legislation on Post-Adoption Contact Agreements (PACAs). This session equips child welfare professionals to recognize and address common misconceptions surrounding the new law. Guest speakers Annick Lennoir Peek, Head Parent Defender for the state of North Carolina, and Stephanie Clare Smith, NC Child Custody and Visitation Mediation Program Manager, unpack myths behind this legislation: Myths Belief t

Path to Permanency recently hosted a virtual training, Safeguarding the Path to Permanency for Foreign-Born Youth in Care, bringing together foster parents, Guardians ad Litem, social workers, attorneys, and other child welfare professionals to better understand how immigration issues intersect with permanency planning. For children in foster care who were born outside the United States, unresolved immigration status can create significant barriers to achieving stable, perman

The momentum continues to build. Our team is excited and energized by the movement and shift towards collaboration.

Tuesday night at SEED20, Charlotte came together to celebrate innovation—and Path to Permanency’s Josclyn Reed delivered a powerful pitch on how delayed case timelines steal childhood.

Tuesday night at SEED20, Charlotte came together to celebrate innovation—and Path to Permanency’s Josclyn Reed delivered a powerful pitch on how delayed case timelines steal childhood.

Energized by November's People's Assembly, action teams have formed and are working to ensure PPRs occur on every case in Mecklenburg County

Energized by November's People's Assembly, action teams have formed and are working to ensure PPRs occur on every case in Mecklenburg County

Check out this OpEd published in the Carolina Journal

Yesterday, October 1st, 2025, marks a historic moment for child welfare in North Carolina. The next set of changes from FOSTERING CARE...

In early September, Path to Permanency hosted our first Foster and Kinship Parent Town Hall. The 29 Mecklenburg County caregivers who...

She was full of love. Laughter. Strength. And though she lost her battle with cancer before receiving the permanency she deserved, her story lives on in everything we do.