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Outlines key tasks for engaging families and youth at the system and agency levels and provides managers with tips, strategies, and stories from the field. Includes a matrix tool that focuses on the impact of the engagement along a continuum, from ineffective or low-impact engagement to effective or high-impact engagement. 

Highlights concrete strategies that health and human services staff can use to help equitably identify people with lived experience to engage.

Identifies common challenges agencies face in building the evidence required by the Family First Prevent Services Act related to kinship navigator programs. Suggests ways to address these challenges, including defining the program model, selecting a comparison group, ensuring an adequate sample size, selecting appropriate outcomes and reliable and valid measures, and collecting data.

Offers four strategies from ninth grade students about how to design programs that will appeal to youth and encourage engagement. Includes strategies such as diversifying program activities to engage different types of learners and creating environments that are inclusive and judgment-free.

Provides an overview of key issues and strategies for residential leaders regarding how to engage and support families formed through adoption, who have a child in residential. The content of this document was developed based on a literature review, as well as consultations and interviews with adoption experts, practitioners, residential leaders, parent advocates, adoptive parents with residential experience, and youth who have been adopted. The purpose of the document is to raise awareness regarding the unique needs and concerns of families formed by adoption whose children are using residential interventions, and to promote tips and strategies for enhancing the responsiveness [...]

Provides an overview of six guiding principles for sites working to improve adoption and guardianship preservation and support.

Provides managers and administrators with information about effective strategies for developing data-driven family support services and research findings to help them make the case for implementing and sustaining these services. Offers the option to download the entire report or select specific chapters or tools.

Helps administrators and other leaders assess and improve the services offered to foster, adoptive, and kinship families. Offers a tool to bring stakeholders together for an assessment of services’ quality and accessibility, identify gaps and areas for improvement, and create and action plan based on the results. Includes the assessment tool and a companion guide.

Addresses what adoption professionals should know about supporting families in crisis who may be considering disruption or dissolution. The speakers help professionals identify and secure appropriate resources while prioritizing adoptive families’ safety and stability. Users will need to create an account and use the code NCEPSFREE to access webinar. A training certificate is available.

Addresses what adoption professionals should know about supporting families in crisis who may be considering disruption or dissolution. The speakers help professionals identify and secure appropriate resources while prioritizing adoptive families’ safety and stability. Users will need to create an account and use the code NCEPSFREE to access webinar. Training certificate is available upon completing all requirements.