Resource Library

Explores how New Jersey implemented TINT. Enables sites to determine if the intervention would work for their jurisdiction and prepare for implementation.

Provides a brief overview of how New Jersey planned to implement Tuning In To Teens (TINT) as part of its work with the QIC-AG.

Highlights the importance of normalizing the need for post-permanency support and ensuring that all families have access to these resources. It offers examples of how sites have tailored their post-permanency program to the unique dynamics of adoptive and guardianship families. Sites can use the article’s strategies and examples to help families understand that seeking support is an expected step in their journey. Introduction to the Resource Watch the video below for an overview of the resource or click on the button to access the article directly.    

Provides a clear description of the program. This guide is intended to be used by staff to carry out the program as intended. Consistency and fidelity in the delivery of services across the state is critical to ensuring that the intended outcomes are achieved.

Discusses what feedback from participants consists of, how agencies can get it, and how they can use it to create and maintain a high-quality program, initiative, or intervention that meets the real needs of the community.

Provides information about special considerations in Oregon’s Adoption and Guardianship Mediation Program, including those related to individuals with disabilities, sibling connections, and adolescents.

Explores how the Oregon Department of Human Services has implemented its Adoption and Guardianship Mediation Program , which enables birth parents and adoptive parents to work together to develop a communications or contact plan after an adoption.

Helps adoption professionals prevent blocked care when working with adoptive parents. Attendees will learn to identify signs of blocked care in parents and develop a plan to help parents overcome this defensive posture. Users will need to create an account and use the code NCEPSFREE to access webinar. A training certificate is available.

Helps states, territories, and tribes that are offering or supporting groups for resource families prepare effective leaders through a 12-hour training curriculum. Covers becoming a leader, planning and getting started, facilitating groups (beginning and advanced), and sustaining the group.

Provides five protective and promotive factors that when taken together increase the probability of positive, adaptive, and healthy outcomes. This article discusses: parental resilience, social connections, knowledge of parenting and child development, concrete support in times of need and the social-emotional competence of children. Each factor has a corresponding action sheet that defines the professional’s role, questions to ask, what to look for and activities to do with parents.