Resource Library

Explores how to adjust a program or intervention for use in a different cultural community, including if, when, and how to make such adaptations.

Describes how grief and loss affect resource families. Shares tools and strategies to increase staff knowledge about grief and loss, including through the use of the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI). Shares how several support programs incorporate grief and loss into their services for resources families.

Outlines steps child welfare leaders can take to address racial bias and inequity within the child welfare system. This article provides examples of the state of Ohio’s initiatives to improve outcomes for children affected by the child welfare system.

Discusses historical inequities in the child welfare system that disproportionately affect Black and American Indian/Alaskan Native children. This article discusses how the impact of poverty led to an overrepresentation of families of color among poor families. This article closes with a call to action to reform the child welfare system through the reallocation of resources towards prevention and addressing institutionalized racism and bias.

Offers a variety of resources related to how Nebraska implemented an effort to prevent and address secondary traumatic stress and burnout in its child welfare workforce.

Provides general information on adoption and guardianship, highlighting differences and trends in state laws. This resource also includes a National Comparison chart and state specific charts to provide addeitional information.

Provides a broad, national overview of the adoption and guardianship legal pathways. This chart is intended as an accopanying tool to the Adoption and Guardianship for Children in Kinship Foster Care brief to help child welfare professionals assist kinship foster parents.

Provides state-specific charts that focus on adoption and guardianship for children in kinship foster care so that these children can exit foster care into permanent families.

Designed to prepare prospective adoptive and guardianship parents deepen their awareness and understanding about themselves and their children and to help build a strong foundation and lasting commitment for families who pursue adoption/guardianship.  The curriculum is divided into four sessions, each lasting about two hours.  This curriculum was developed by Harmony Family Center’s Adoption Support and Preservation Program in partnership with the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services. It is available to use in part or whole, free of charge.   AGPT Trainer’s Guide.2024 AGPT Session 1 AGPT Session 2 AGPT Session 3 AGPT Session 4  

Examines the links between early adversity, trauma, and adoption. Describes how pre-placement adversity can undermine neurobehavioral and interpersonal functioning, increasing the risk for long-term psychological difficulties. Examines children’s recovery when placed in a stable adoptive home. Explores adoption as a lived experience, highlighting contextual and developmental factors that facilitate the person’s positive or negative attributions about being adopted, leading to varying patterns of emotional adjustment.