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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 an overview of how states handle post-adoption agreements also known as open adoption agreements. This page highlights the definition and purpose of open adoption agreements and enforceability by state.

Provides a guide for establishing a warm line. It highlights the benefits of empathetic, peer-to-peer support and provides five implementation steps: planning, resource development, volunteer training, publicity and evaluation.

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.

Explores the critical role of child-parent relationships in post-permanency success for children who have experienced trauma, loss and multiple placements.  This article provides case examples and evidence-based models like Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®) to emphasize the importance of attachment, emotional regulation, and relational support over behavior correction. This article also highlights key resources such as the National Training and Development Curriculum (NTDC) and CORE Teen Curriculum which advocate for a trauma-informed, connection-focused approach to foster healing and stabilities in families.

Provides a description of parental post-adoption depression (PAD), and the research conducted by Dr. Foli. The findings reveal that parental expectations are associated with depressive symptoms in adoptive parents. This podcast also provides suggestions on how to reframe expectations of themselves as parents, of the child, of family and friends, and of society are explored.

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.