Resource Library

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.

Explores how child welfare systems should foster a healthy organizational culture and climate and improve the well-being of the child welfare workforce. Emphasizes the importance of racial equity in all facets of the organization and workforce. Discusses how child welfare organizations can create equity in the workforce by promoting diversity, emphasizing the need for organizational assessments, creating a culture that values lived experience and expertise, addressing moral distress, and combating implicit bias.  

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 Directors and Administrators to spark conversations and critical thinking among agency staff. This resource may be used to build a positive culture and climate change to support kinship care within the agency and in community outreach.

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.

Provides activities to integrate compelling stories and throught-providing exercises into preservice training, supervisor training and caregiver training.

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.