Resource Library

Provides a summary of the research related to the TBRI® model.

Highlights the importance of respite services for adoptive parents. Respite provides essential breaks for caregivers, especially those who have adopted children with high levels of care, helping to support family stability and well-being. This article discusses how adoptive families need case management, support groups, educational resources and therapeutic counseling to help them navigate the complexities of adoption.

Synthesizes current research about child, family, and agency risk factors that contribute to discontinuity in adoption.

Helps child welfare caseworkers improve their skills to better work with adoptive and foster families. Also helps caseworkers recognize and understand children who have experienced trauma.

Includes a series of articles that describe a process for delivering trauma screening, functional and clinical assessment, evidence-based interventions, and the use of progress monitoring in order to better achieve well-being outcomes.

Discusses the impact of secondary traumatic stress (STS) on child welfare workers affecting both individuals and agencies. This article provides examples of programs implemented by Nebraska and Ohio to help manage STS. This article also provides coping strategies for child welfare professionals.

Discusses the personal, professional, and organizational impacts of secondary traumatic stress on tribal child welfare workers and the unique resiliency factors present in tribal communities. Shares traditional practices and western methodologies that support resiliency and mitigate the impacts of secondary traumatic stress.

Provides information related to risk and protective factors and their role in identifying community changes. This section explores: a more in-depth understanding of risk and protective factors, when to look at the risk and protective factors for important issues, how to identify the specific risk and protective factors and how these factors will help your organization identify who should most benefit and how to make a difference. Additional tabs provide a checklist, examples, tools and a PowerPoint presentation.

Explores the needs behind and principles for selective services (services for children and families at moderate risk of discontinuity) that agencies can provide after permanency, offering examples of promising programs.

Offers self-care techniques and tools for tribal child welfare professionals.