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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.

Examines the historical evolution of adoption language and emphasizes the importance of incorporating the adoptee voice into practice and policy through tools for evaluation and empowerment. Users will need to create an account and use the code NCEPSFREE to access webinar. A training certificate is available.

Discusses the value of incorporating people who have lived expertise (both those who were in care or adopted and parents/caregivers) into support programs and offers suggestions for where and how to incorporate those with lived expertise, such as on advisory boards or work groups or as service providers. Offers examples from programs around the country and makes recommendations for training, supporting, and elevating those with lived expertise.

Explores the needs behind and principles for indicated services (services for children and families at high risk of discontinuity) that agencies can provide after permanency, offering examples of promising programs.

Describes what foster, adoptive, and kinship family support looks like at each stage of the journey, from inquiry to licensure or approval and after placement, and offers tips for integrating support throughout the process.

Assists child welfare professionals with identifying examples of how the NTI training knowledge and skills can be applied in various work settings. This video demonstrates the value of collaboration between child welfare and mental health professionals to promote permanency and well-being. This video also explains how to assess the benefit of integrating NTI into an organizational training milieu and access options.

Explores the needs behind and principles for intensive services (services for children and families at imminent risk of discontinuity) that agencies can provide after permanency, offering examples of promising programs.

Provides a detailed explanation of how the TBRI® intervention helps heal children who have been significantly affected by trauma.

Explains the QIC-AG Permanency Continuum Framework, which is designed to promote placement stability for children and adoptive families.