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Article
Predictors of Adoption Disruption and Dissolution: A Literature Review
Summarizes research that identifies key child, parent, and system factors that increase the likelihood of adoption disruption and dissolution, as well as implications for adoption practice, including a section on pre- and post-adoption support services and another on crisis management.
Web Page
Preparing a Program to Treat Diverse Clients
Provides detailed information about how programs and agencies can better understand and strive for cultural competence. Is designed for substance abuse clients, but is more broadly applicable.
Article
Preparing Adoptive Parents
Provides caseworkers with information and resources about the importance of preparing adoptive parents. Is also relevant for preparing guardians.
Article
Preparing Children and Youth for Adoption or Other Family Permanency
Provides information about key emotions and challenge facing children and youth in adoption and offers tips for preparing them for permanency.
Presentation
Preparing, Educating, and Supporting Adoptive Parents: What Do We Know and What Do We Need to Know?
Explores the importance of preparing adoptive parents and outlines key principles in effective preparation, including topics, timing, and methods.
Article
Preventing Foster Care or Shifting the Burden? The Urgent Need to Develop a Shared Understanding of Nonparental Family Types and the Child Welfare System’s Role in Kinship Family Formation
Discusses the challenges children living with nonparental care households in the United States face, emphasizing the need for a more accurate understanding of their well-being. The article can be found on pages 59-76
Guide/Report
Prioritizing Youth Voice: The Importance of Authentic Youth Engagement in Case Planning
Outlines the importance of youth engagement and provides caseworkers with key concepts and tangible strategies to apply to practice.
Webinar
Proactively Preventing Adoption and Guardianship Disruption
Discusses how agencies can help to prevent adoption and guardianship disruption and dissolution. Shares strategies to proactively address risk and protective factors that relate to adoptive placement stability.
Guide/Report
Profiles in Adoption: A Survey of Adoptive Parents and Secondary Data Analysis of Federal Adoption Files
Presents results of a large survey of adoptive parents and secondary data analysis of federal adoption data. Provides descriptive statistics describing who is adopting and who is being adopted. Includes information on meeting children’s needs after adoption and children’s educational experiences, which can help programs seeking to support adoptive families.
Article
Protective Factors: On the Road to Prevention Replacing the Need for Intervention
Provides an overview of five protective factors: building parental resilience, seeking social connections, learning about parent and child development, concrete support in good times and in bad and developing social and emotional competence in kids.
