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• A New Resource to Empower Families

  Meaningful family engagement recognizes that families are the experts of their own experiences, assures their active role and voice, and empowers them to make joint decisions to ensure their children’s ...Read More
  

• Did you know June is National Reunification Month?

  Since 2012, June has been recognized as National Reunification Month, honoring the strength and resilience of families who reunite with the children they love. Reunification is a form of legal permanence, and ...Read More
  

• Fifth Annual Virtual Matching Event: Permanent Connections at the Touch of a Button

  Held annually since 2021, this event is a unique two-week online forum that allows agencies representing waiting children and families and the waiting families themselves to interact directly as well ...Read More
  

• Building Resiliency in Children, One Interaction at a Time

  Permanency workers have a powerful opportunity to help build resilience in the children and youth they serve—one interaction at a time. During the SWAN/IL Spring Quarterly Meetings held throughout April, ...Read More
  

• Developing Families through the Family Profile Process

  If achieving permanency is a journey, then the SWAN Family Profile Unit of Service equips Pennsylvania families with everything they need—prepared, packed, and ready—to navigate that path successfully. The family ...Read More
  

• Winter Statewide Meeting Boosts Energy and Connections

  During the bleak, cold winter, everyone in the SWAN/IL network knows the best opportunity for warmth and energy is attending the SWAN/IL Winter Statewide Meeting.  Held at The Penn Stater ...Read More
  

• Call for Award Nominations

  Do you know someone who does great things for children in the child welfare system? Do you know an exceptional adoptive, formal kinship care or permanent legal custodianship family? Say ...Read More
  

• Now Accepting 2025 Permanency Conference Family Scholarship Applications

  The 33rd Annual Pennsylvania Permanency Conference will be held June 18-20, 2025, at the Kalahari Resorts and Conventions in Pocono Manor, PA. The Permanency Conference is sponsored by the Department ...Read More