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Web Page
LGBTQ+ Inclusive Policy and Practices for Your Organization: Child Welfare Administrators
Provides educational resources and tools related to LGBTQ+ inclusion for child welfare systems. Is designed to support agencies looking to truly welcome and affirm LGBTQ+ prospective parents and transform their service delivery for LGBTQ+ youth in out-of-home care.
Article
Lighting the Path to Family Success: The Vital Role of Pre-Permanency Preparation
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.
Article
Literature & Resource Review Characteristics of Successful Foster, Adoptive and/or Kinship Caregivers of American Indian, Alaska Native, First Nations and Native Hawaiian (AIAN/FN/NH) Children and Suggested Training Themes for These Parents
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.
Brief/Tipsheet
Logic Model Tip Sheet
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.
Web Page
Logic Models
Describes logic models and their components. Offers various resources to help in the development of a logic model.
Guide/Report
Love Without Borders: Grandfamilies and Immigration
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.
Video
Maintaining and Strengthening Birth Family Relationships Post-Placement
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.
Guide/Report
Making it Work: Using the Guardianship Assistance Program (GAP) to Close the Permanency Gap for Children in Foster Care
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.
Webinar
Making the Most of Your Data: Information Interpretation
Explores how programs can use data to guide program improvement and tell the program’s story of its work with children and families.
Guide/Report
Measuring What Matters: Using Data to Support Family Progress
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.
