Resource Library

Describes the impact of grief and loss and explains the 3-5-7 Model, which is designed to help professionals and parents work with children and youth to address these issues of grief and loss.

Supports caseworkers, supervisors, and all other levels of the child welfare workforce in implementing trauma-informed knowledge and skills in their daily interactions, professional services, and organizational culture. Requires user registration.

Provides adoptive and guardianship parents with an overview of the core issues in adoption, explores behaviors at various ages, and offers tips for parents to maintain their well-being and find support for the family. Is designed for Maryland families; can be adapted to your agency’s own needs.

Provides adoptive and guardianship parents with an overview of the core issues in adoption, explores behaviors at various ages, and offers tips for parents to maintain their well-being and find support for the family. Is designed for Vermont families; can be adapted to your agency’s own needs.

Discusses the historal roots of kinship care, emphasizing its prevalence feofre formal adoption policies. This article highlights the unique aspects of kinship adoption, provides recommendations for child welfare professionals and dispels common myths about kinship adoption.

Explores the seven core issues in adoption and how families can address the issues. Although written for parents, provides useful information for professionals who are supporting adoptive and guardianship families.

Shares information about key issues facing adopted teens such as ambiguous loss and identity formation, presented by an adoptee who is also a clinical counselor.

Examines how targeted permanency and post-permanency services influence family stability for children in the child welfare system. This article discusses key legislation which has impacted permanency options. It also highlights challenges in ensuring long-term stability after adoption or guardianship, noting that some children re-enter foster care despite achieving permanency.

Provides information to adoption service providers about key issues in adoption and offers suggestions about how they can support all members of the adoption constellation. Also offers recommendations for ways to stay connected to families after placement and finalization.

Provides guidelines for planning and implementing a program evaluation with individual chapters addressing specific steps in the evaluation process and practical tools, templates, and recommendations for further reading.