Angie Stephenson Joins the Dilley Pro Bono Project: Representing Mothers and Children Seeking Asylum
The Dilley Pro Bono Project On November 2, 2019, I am embarking on a weeklong pro bono mission near our country’s southern border in Dilley, Texas. The largest family detention center, the South Texas Family Residential Center, is found in this fairly remote town...
Honoring Adoption for Our Furry Family Members: Chatham Animal Rescue and Education
The primary focus at Stephenson & Fleming, LLP is the health, vitality, and permanence of family. Building strong and healthy families through birth, foster care, reunification, and adoption is our daily mission. We also recognize that there is another vital...
Legal Name Changes for Adults and Children
In North Carolina, there is a statutory process for legally changing an individual’s name. While similar in process, there are different requirements for name changes for adults and children. There are multiple personal reasons an individual would want to change their...
NC’s Unique Mechanisms for Supporting Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Caregivers
May is National Foster Care Month May is National Foster Care Month, a time to encourage families and children involved in the foster care system, recruit new foster parents, and support those foster, adoptive, and kinship parents already caring for children. Click...
How to Raise Resilient Compassionate Children: An Article by Angenette Stephenson
Fostering Perspectives is a publication created for foster and adoptive parents in North Carolina. It is sponsored by the NC Division of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Center at UNC Chapel Hill and issued twice a year. Each issue covers a...
Angenette Stephenson Featured in National Publication Discussing How to Avoid Unnecessary Removals
In February 2019, Partner Angenette Stephenson was featured in Policy and Practice by APHSA (American Public Human Services Association). In this article Angenette specifically addresses how child welfare social workers can avoid overreaching and engaging children and...