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The Child Welfare Trauma Training Toolkit

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.
Tool/Toolkit

The Continuing Journey of Children and Families: A Reference Guide for Maryland Families Parenting by Adoption or Guardianship

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.
Tool/Toolkit

The Continuing Journey of Children and Families: An Informational Guide for those Parenting by Adoption or Guardianship (Vermont)

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.
Article

The Hidden Hurdles and Benefits of Kinship Care and Adoption

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.
Article

The Impact of 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.
Article

The Impact of Adoption on Teen Identity Formation

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.
Article

The Impact of Leadership Turnover on Child Welfare Initiatives

Provides insight on the effect of leadership turnover on child welfare initiatives. This resources provides nine actionable tactics to help child welfare initiatives survive these changes.
Article

The Post-Adoption Life: Supporting Adoptees, Birth Parents, and Families After Adoption. Adoption Advocate No. 78

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.
Guide/Report

The Program Manager’s Guide to Evaluation

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. 
Article

The Resiliency-Focused Supervision Model: Addressing Stress, Burnout, and Self-Care Among Social Workers

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.

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