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Discusses promising practices in Kinship across the nation that has led to improved outcomes for children in care. This article highlights creating a kin-first culture within the child welfare system that prioritizes kinship placements. This article goes on to highlight promising practices in New York, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Missouri related to having dedicated kinship staff and the implementation of extensive family-finding programs. It also discusses the financial assistance available to kinship caregivers including subsidies, TANF grants, and licensing financial assistance.

Support groups can be a great tool for adoptive parents and guardians, providing them with a sense of community, giving them critical information and helping them to connect to resources.  This tip sheet presents suggestions on how to successfully plan for and lead adoptive parent support groups.  

Evaluates a pilot program implementing Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) among a sample child welfare staff working across eight organizations in order to 1) describe the first year of implementation and 2) examine staff and organizational change.

Highlights the importance of building familial relationships and lifelong commitments through appropriate preparation and training. This article outlines eleven benefits of pre-permanency training. Introduction to the Resource Watch the video below for an overview of the resource or click on the button to access the article directly.    

Describes a logic model with input, activities, and outcomes to assist in program planning, implementation, management, evaluation, and reporting. Offers examples in each area. Includes information about developing SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-phased) goals.

Describes logic models and their components. Offers various resources to help in the development of a logic model.

Aims to equip adoption professionals with strategies for supporting adoptive families in navigating complex birth family relationships and dynamics. Users will need to create an account and use the code NCEPSFREE to access webinar. A training certificate is available.

Combines the results of a survey of 30 jurisdictions implementing the Guardianship Assistance Program (GAP) as of September 30, 2012 and seeks to motivate state agency staff and other stakeholders to consider adopting GAP for children in their states.

Explores how programs can use data to guide program improvement and tell the program’s story of its work with children and families.

Outlines how programs can use data to engage families and support progress toward outcomes. Describes two helpful approaches for using family-related data: (1) a set of guiding principles, the Four R Approach: Responsible, Respectful, Relevant, and Relationship-based; and (2) a cycle of data activities: Prepare, Collect, Aggregate and Analyze, and Use and Share. Although written for Head Start programs, is useful for other family-serving programs.