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HomeWorks is a Utah DCFS program that provides in-home services to families. HomeWorks services can be court-ordered or non-court ordered. All HomeWorks cases will be supported by a caseworker using various tools to help identify family’s strengths and needs including: Structured Decision Making to help identify child safety and risk issues; Child and Family Team Meetings to set goals and create plans; Safety plan that shows how safety concerns will be managed; Utah Family and Child Engagement Tool that helps identify family’s strengths and needs; and Child and family plan that will address needs identified and connect to community resources.

The Vermont Consortium for Adoption and Guardianship is a network of agencies, groups, and individuals providing a continuum of adoption services including: in-home adjusted parent education; consultation to treatment teams and educational advocacy; referrals to community resources; general adoption/guardianship information; kinship placement support; support groups; education and training for foster, adoptive, and guardianship families; and a lending library.

The Kinship Navigator Program in Washington State is a statewide program that provides a human services worker known as a Kinship Navigator that provides services to kinship care families in a single or multi-county area or for one of the eight Tribes. The role of the Kinship Navigator is to connect grandparents and relatives who are raising children with community resources, such as health, financial, legal services, support groups, training, and emergency funds. The Kinship Navigator Program provides resources, information and support to assist family members who are raising their relative’s children, either temporarily or long term. Length and duration […]

Watch, Wait and Wonder is a child led psychotherapeutic approach that specifically and directly uses the child’s aged 0 – 4 spontaneous activity in a free play format to enhance maternal sensitivity and responsiveness, the child’s sense of self and self-efficacy, emotion regulation, and the child-parent attachment relationship. The approach provides space for the infant/child and caregiver to work through developmental and relational struggles through play. The process engages the caregiver to be reflective about the child’s inner world of feelings, thoughts and desires, through which the caregiver recognizes the separate self of the infant and gains an understanding of […]

Wraparound is a comprehensive, intensive holistic method of engaging with children or youth experiencing serious mental health and behavioral challenges. The child and their family work with a team of professionals and natural supports to respond to the needs of the child and the family. The Wraparound team includes the child and their family, the wraparound facilitator, family’s friends, people from their community, and providers of services and supports. The child and their family take the lead I deciding their vision and goals, and in developing individualized services and supports that will help them meeting the goals and vision. The […]

You Gotta Believe (YGB) is a New York City-based, national organization that provides ongoing support for young adults, teens, preteens, and families before, during, and after the matching process. YGB core services include: Family Finding; Parent Training and Certification; and Long-Term Pre and Post Adoption Support Services.