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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.

Describes the Resiliency-Focused Supervision Model (RFSM), a strengths-based framework that was developed to enable supervisors to help staff manage stress, avoid burnout, and be successful in the workplace. Offers a practical, pragmatic option for supervisors to use in partnership with workers to promote good health, well-being, and resiliency.

Aims to describe factors that influence the review process timeline and identify steps that study authors and program or service developers can take to help ensure a timely review process.

Explores the value of adoptive parent support groups, emphasizing their role in sustaining adoptions. This article outlines five types of groups: frustration or ventilation group, support group, service group, advocacy group, and political group. It highlights how these groups validate experiences, share resources and offer emotional encouragement.

Delineates the challenges grandfamilies encounter in accessing federal nutrition programs and proposes various policy solutions to alleviate food insecurity.