Cross Site Meeting Connections

The Post-Adoption Center held its first cross-site meeting on April 8th, 2025, for sites currently receiving on-site technical assistance. This meeting bought together child welfare professionals from California, Arizona, Oregon, Kentucky and Wisconsin to learn from one another on how post-permanency services are provided in their states as well as to develop a network of professionals they can connect with for support and to share ideas. A few of the participants shared their ‘WHY’ with the Post-Adoption Center team.  

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      One of the many exciting things about joining with the Center is working on a comprehensive model of post-permanency. One important step to this model is the creation of a website that lists services in each county for families.   

Kaytie Speziale, Post-Permanency Services Unit Manager
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   Kentucky has been working toward expanding post-permanency services for the past several years, and this was the perfect opportunity to receive support and collaboration in this work. A main priority for the state in this project is to become a more adoption-competent system. The number of partners engaged in this process has been inspiring.  

Veronica Sears, Adoption Services Branch Manager
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      ODHS is focused on the importance of having a continuum of support for youth and families processing the trauma associated with loss, abuse and disrupted attachments.  Oregon is excited to apply Harmony’s AGPT program to our pre-finalization supports for both kinship and non-kinship caregivers. The program offers tools to encourage seeking support, explains the significance of grief and loss and creates a “warm hand-off” to post-permanency services.

Kelly Ingles, Oregon Post-Permanency Program Analyst

We Are Recruiting

The Post-Adoption Center is currently recruiting a tribal nation to receive on-site technical assistance. We are also recruiting for states and territories to receive on-site technical assistance in year 3. For more information, complete this form.  

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How to Reach Adoptive and Guardianship Families Before They Experience Crises

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Post-Permanency Support for Tribal Nations

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