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Professionals at all levels can find something relevant for themselves, whether it’s a new program idea, a funding strategy for administrators, a tip about staff development for managers and supervisors, or advice for direct-service providers serving diverse families.

The National Center for Enhanced Post-Adoption Support has established a library consisting of hundreds of articles, guides, webinars, videos and other resources — carefully curated and reviewed — to help child welfare professionals enhance the support that they provide to families that have achieved permanency through adoption or guardianship.

Post-Permanency Model Program Manual

The Post-Permanency Model Program Manual outlines recommendations for a coordinated program offering eight services for adoptive and guardianship families who are parenting children/youth who have more serious needs.

Post-Permanency Profiles

The Post-Permanency Profiles highlights each states post-permanency program. The profiles are designed to assist child welfare professionals learn about the supports provided to adoptive and guardianship families across the nation.

Program Catalog

The Catalog contains over 100 programs and interventions that are being used or could be adapted to work with children and families who have obtained permanence through adoption or guardianship.

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TBRI® Conversations: The Attachment Cycle (Training)

We all sometimes need to dive back into the Attachment Cycle. What is it? What happens in our brains and bodies as we move through this cycle? How does the Attachment Cycle help us learn about relationships?
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TBRI® Conversations: The IDEAL® Response

Responding effectively to difficult behaviors is challenging. In this video, we dig into the IDEAL response (Immediate, Direct, Efficient, Action-Based, Leveled at the Behavior, not the Child). What does each of these pieces mean?
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TBRI® Conversations: The TBRI® Mantra

You may have heard the TBRI® Mantra: Stay Calm – no matter what; See the Need – behind the behavior; Meet the Need- find a way; Don’t Quit – If not you then who? Watch as Dr. David Cross, Daren Jones and Amanda Purvis unpack the TBRI® Mantra.
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TBRI® Conversations: Tools to Empower

In this video, we discuss some of the tangible ways that we can empower children and youth to be successful and become and stay regulated. Behaviors that we often see from our children and youth can be caused by unmet physiological and environmental needs.
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TBRI® Conversations: You and Me Against Your History

Dr. Karyn Purvis used to say, “It’s you and me against your history.” This quote captures the foundation of connection, and as caregivers, we are walking alongside and supporting our children and youth as they work through their histories. In this video, we explore how this plays out in our lives as we implement TBRI®.
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Ten Practical Steps to Support Sustained Permanency

Provides ten practical steps agencies can take to support sustained permanenc for families. The ten steps are subdivded across five domains.
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Tennessee Adoption Support and Preservation

Provides information on the theory of change, services offered, staffing, budget, evaluation, and more for Tennessee post-adoption support program.
Guide/Report

Tennessee Implementation Manual: Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics

Explores how Tennessee implemented the Neurosquential Model of Therapeutics as part of its work with the QIC-AG. Enables sites to determine if the intervention would work for their jurisdiction and prepare for implementation.
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Tennessee: Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)

Provides a brief overview of how Tennessee planned to implement the Neurosquential Model of Therapeutics.
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Texas Implementation Manual: Pathways to Permanence 2: Parenting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma and Loss

Explores how Texas implemented Pathways to Permanence 2. Enables sites to determine if the intervention would work for their jurisdiction and prepare for implementation.

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