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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      What Arizona was doing was not enough, and it’s difficult to see a path to improvements when we don’t have adequate staffing to do the basics. Arizona is excited the comprehensive assessment for indicated youth due to lack of clinical support currently. 

Ken Hoffman, Program Manager, Post-Permanency Supports
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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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