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Offers advice about ensuring that people with lived expertise receive the development and support they need as they advise, provide, develop, or lead support services for other resource families.

Discusses how Vermont assesses child, family, and system risk and protective factors to help determine how best to support adoptive families.

Investigates how child welfare systems can better identify families who struggle after adoption or guardianship. This article emphasizes that while most families will adjust well with supportive services, a significant portion face challenges that may lead to children/youth re-entering foster care.

Describes specific activities associated with Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation Services. Having a clear description and guidelines about the delivery of the program is necessary to help ensure the quality of postadoption and guardianship service delivery is equitable and consistent across the state. This manual includes a theory of change, describes the philosophical principles and values that undergird the program, defines assessments and treatment planning steps, and recognizes the racial and cultural differences of clients and their adoptive parents/guardians when providing services.

Offers advice for sites that might be interested in implementing Adoption and Guardianship Enhanced Support (AGES), based on lessons learned by Wisconsin.

Explores how systems can create or improve family preservation services designed specifically for adoptive and guardianship families. Shares several sites’ experiences in building and maintaining adoptive/guardianship family preservation programs, including funding and staffing considerations, program evaluation and outcomes, and recommendations for administrators seeking to implement similar programs

Explores how systems can create or improve family preservation services that are designed specifically for adoptive and guardianship families. In this webinar, leaders in the field share their state’s experience in building and maintaining adoptive/guardianship family preservation programs, including funding and staffing considerations, program evaluation and outcomes, and recommendations for administrators seeking to implement similar programs.

Focuses on intensive home-based treatment and presents standards of this service developed in collaboration with CWRU, the University of Washington, the TA Network, the Yale Child Study Center, and the Children’s Behavioral Health Knowledge Center, Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. The Intensive Home-Based Treatment (IHBT) Program and Practice Standards are designed to facilitate enhanced consistency of IHBT service delivery across states and providers. The IHBT Program Standards include the following areas: staffing and workforce development; IHBT program components; IHBT quality and accountability mechanisms; organizational supports; and IHBT supervision and oversight. The IHBT Practice Standards address the following clinical practice areas: [...]

Offers advice for sites that might be interested in implementing Pathways to Permanence 2, based on lessons learned in Texas.

Offers advice for sites that might be interested in implementing Reach for Success, based on lessons learned by Catawba County, North Carolina.