Resource Library

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.

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.

Presents information about Attachment Biobehavioral Catch-up, an early intervention program for adopted youth and youth in foster care who have experienced adversity in their caregiving relationships.

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.

Designed for Supervisors to spark conversations and critical thinking among agency staff. Supervisors can use this resource for one-on-one coaching to enhance individual staff learning and in group supervision and team meetings to build shared knowledge and find collaborative solutions.

Highlights the role agency resources and family support can play in heloing kinship families face challenges. This video discusses an aunt’s decision to become a full-time caregiver for her niece and her niece’s daughter, and the importance home visits played in the transition.

Emphasizes the importance of community and caseworker support in having the resources needed to promote family well-being, particularly when caring for children with special needs. This video highlights the perspective of a kinship caregiver who is an Athabaskan native teaching her grandchildren the Navajo culture and community traditions and passing down her grandparents’ stories.

Addresses the importance of being open to agency support and resources and the necessity of self-care in working through family traditions and meeting needs. In this video, a kinship parent caring for her niece’s children reflects on her family’s strategies for raising children who have experienced trauma and the resources that enabled them to become effective kinship caregivers.

Highlights the significant impact agency staffhave on the kinship and foster parent experience and in helping families serve as a resource for the birth families of the children in their care. This video presents one family’s story of becoming a kinship resource and how support from their foster care specialist guided their decision.