Resource Library

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 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.

Is a practical, leadership-focused resource designed to help tribal governments protect their children, sovereignty, and cultural continuity. The guide outlines actions tribal leaders can take to strengthen indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) compliance and ensure Native children remain connected to their families, tribes and cultural identity.

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.

Highlights the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe (PGST) Kinship Parenting Program. Other Tribal Nations and service providers can utilize the outlined practices as a guide as they develop or modify their own programming that best aligns with their community values, needs, and resources.

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.