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Offers information about how adoption affects school-age children’s developmental needs. Provides simple, practical strategies to foster healthy development, including approaches for building attachment; addressing trauma, grief, and loss; talking honestly about adoption; acknowledging adoption history; using effective discipline; and enhancing the child’s school experience. Although written for parents, provides useful information for workers who are supporting adoptive/guardianship families.

Provides information about the impact of adoption on teens and offers practical strategies to foster healthy development. Covers approaches that acknowledge potential trauma and loss, support effective communication, promote independence, and address possible behavioral and mental health concerns. Although written for parents, provides useful information for workers who are supporting adoptive/guardianship families.

Highlights how to incorporate those with lived experience into support programs, including by prioritizing peer support and peer leadership. Discusses the importance of readying your agency so that those with lived experience can thrive in your organization as their authentic selves.

Highlights the key role that peer-led support can play in helping resource families in tribal communities to thrive. Presenters discuss the many forms peer support can take and offer concrete strategies for incorporating it.

Describes the value and types of peer support and offers tips for implementing in tribal communities. Includes examples of successful programs.

Offers an overview of state legislation prioritizing kinship placements. This resource also discusses adoption by relatives.

Offers concise guiding questions for programs to consider as they develop or enhance a data system. Highlights data needs, program capacity, and readiness for change.

This video is designed to help child welfare agencies gain a better understanding of the Post Adoption and Guardianship Instability (PAGI) Toolkit. This toolkit is designed to help child welfare agencies develop a systematic way to track instability for children who exit foster care through adoption or guardianship. Tracking instability over time can help agencies better understand how many families struggle after adoption or guardianship. Better tracking may also help agencies identify and respond to challenges early and intervene before crises and instability occur. It is best to watch this video first.

Is designed to help child welfare agencies develop a systematic way to track instability for children who exit foster care through adoption or guardianship so they can better understand how many families struggle after adoption or guardianship and know when to intervene. Includes a webinar and a tracking workbook. Also includes a Users Guide that explains how to use the tools available in the tracking workbook and has a sample letter that agencies can send to families with questions that ask about if the child still lives with their adoptive parent or guardian and about the child’s well-being. 

Highlights one adoption agency’s crisis response process through their Post Adoption Connection Center services, detailing the structure of their Placement Stabilization Team and offering guidance for implementing a similar support system within other adoption agencies. Users will need to create an account and use the code NCEPSFREE to access webinar. A training certificate is available.