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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.

Offers advice for sites that might be interested in implementing the Neurosquential Model of Therapeutics, based on lessons learned in Tennessee.

Offers advice for sites that might be interested in conducting a needs assessment survey of their adoptive/guardianship families, based on lessons learned in Vermont.

Offers advice for sites that might be interested in implementing Tuning In To Teens (TINT), based on lessons learned in New Jersey.

Highlights the importance of tailored, intensive support services to maintain the stability and well-being of adoptive and guardianship families. This article discusses the importance of family preservation services, strategies for effective services, key components of services and examples from the field.

Offers suggestions for providing support services designed for adoptive families whose children are at risk of disruption, dissolution, or out-of-home placement.

Highlights the Illinois Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (ASAP) program. This program provides a range of services to support adoptive and guardianship families.  The Illinois ASAP program offers in-home therapeutic support through counseling and the START 24/7 (State Early, Trauma-Informed, Attachment-focused, Resiliency-building, Therapeutic services).   This article discusses Illinois program through the lens of a service provider.

Discusses facts and findings related to kinship care and children who have experienced trauma. This report also provides recommendations to child welfare professionals on how to support kinship caregivers.