Resource Library

Draws from available literature and practice knowledge to summarize key issues related to providing effective services to support the stability and permanency of adoptions. Supports professionals in addressing adoptive parents’ and children’s needs for services, recognizing key considerations in providing services, addressing emerging issues, and meeting common challenges in delivery.

Outlines how various forms of peer support—such as mentoring, support groups, peer liaisons, and direct support—can reduce isolation, provide encouragement, and help families access other helpful services. Describes seven successful peer support programs.

Delves into the complexities of transracial adoption, focusing on strategies to help adoptees develop secure connections to their community of origin and form healthy identities. Users will need to create an account and use the code NCEPSFREE to access webinar. A training certificate is available.

Provides insight on disproportionality of Black children in the United States child welfare system. This resources discusses how black children experience higher rates of investigation, removal from their parents and termination of parental rights compared to white children. In addition, this resources discusses how some federal laws may be contributing factors to racial discrimination and unequal outcomes in the child welfare system.

Explores how Catawba County, North Carolina, implemented the Reach for Success outreach program. Enables sites to determine if the outreach intervention would work for their jurisdiction and prepare for implementation.

Discusses the evolution of kinship care arrangements for foster children, highlighting changes in legislation and practices over time.

Delves into the deficiencience in the fundamental needs of custodial grandparent-headed households.

Reviews the history of transracial adoption in the US through the lens of colonization, describes research related to racism and its impact on transracially adopted children, and recommends relational–cultural theory as a supportive framework for school, mental health, and family counselors.

Highlights the historical roots of racism in child welfare, tracing back to slavery and evolving through various laws and practices that have harmed Black families. This report acknowledges the existence of systemic racism in the New York child welfare system while calling for lawmakers to create and enforce laws that value and preserve Black families and repeal discriminatory policies.