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3 <br />Also under exploration is the need for a local group home for children needing <br />therapeutic group caze, as well as teens needing group Gaze with independent living skills <br />being taught. This gap in our community services has been identified in previous yeazs <br />but inadequate funding has been an ongoing barrier. Members of the Community Child <br />Protection Team aze again working to find resources to address this need for children in <br />Orange County. In order to successfully transition children needing therapeutic caze back <br />to their families, the families need to be involved in their treatment and the children need <br />the consistency of the clinical services during transition and after they return home. <br />Success is severely impacted when children aze placed in group homes in other <br />communities and then returned home to this community. Many children needing <br />independent living skills and a transitional placement prior to adult living do not receive <br />this service as they refuse to leave their friends, family and their home community. The <br />lack of prepazation impacts their ability to be productive, independent young adults. <br />Additional needs aze anticipated with two recent events which will impact the <br />children of this county and help to shape juvenile law in North Carolina. The first is the <br />passage of a federal law, the 1997 Adoption and Safe Family Act (ASFA). In general, the <br />provisions in this law seek to speed the process towazd permanency for children <br />removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. The desired goal for disrupted <br />families continues to be reunification, but this law clearly focuses on safety and stability <br />for children as the number one priority. Courts, for example, will now require that <br />