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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.    

Presents results of a systematic literature review on the key characteristics needed in foster, adoptive, or kinship parents of American Indian, Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian children. Offers suggestions for pre-placement training topics for these families including cultural competency, child-rearing practices, communication styles, and more.

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.

Underscores challenges faced by grandfamilies who unexpectedly find themselves raising children due to a parent’s detention or deportation. This report provides tangible policy and program recommendations for policymakers and advocates.

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.

Explores the various physical, psychological, behavioral, and developmental health care needs facing children who have been adopted. Although written for parents, provides an excellent overview of key conditions that is useful for those supporting adoptive or guardianship families.