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Explains what a trauma-responsive support systems looks like and shares strategies to make support services for adoptive, foster, and kinship families more trauma-responsive. Includes information for leaders and managers, supervisors, and caseworkers.

The guide and tool can help tribal child welfare system administrators and leaders develop programmatic strategies for service delivery, including improvements to streamline and better support foster, kinship and adoptive and customary adoptive families. Tribal Support Services Assessment Tool Guide Tribal Support Services Assessment Tool

Helps tribes assess and improve the services offered to foster, kinship, adoptive, and customary adoptive families. Includes the assessment tool and a companion guide.

Describes the TBRI® model and the evidence supporting it as a promising practice.

Shares information about the TBRI® model, including how, why, and with whom it can be used. Offers links to more information about TBRI®, including research, podcasts, and more.

Gathers expert insights from adoptees, birth parents, foster parents, adoptive parents, and child welfare professionals to challenge adoption narratives and advocate for reform. This article includes themes of adoption as a lifelong journey, human rights reform, and urgency of education and reform. The panelists include: Amnoni Myers, Sue Badeau, Ridghaus, Dr. Elliotte Harrington, Dr. Dana Johnson and Dr. Gary Mallon.

Explores the experiences of adoptive and guardianship families navigating post-permanency services, highlighting the importance of accessible, trauma-informed, and community-centered care.

Discusses how to recognize the signs of secondary traumatic stress using self-assessment and offers concrete strategies to help manage vicarious trauma. Shares self-care techniques to avoid burnout and ways to respond to signs of secondary traumatic stress when they present in others. Is designed for parent group leaders, but is applicable to other support providers.

Explores the needs behind and principles for universal services (services for all children and families) that agencies can provide after permanency, offering examples of promising programs.

Provides listeners with a lived experience perspective from Ms. Alicia Murray. In this episode, listeners will explore the challenges of foster care and adoption journey, discover the profound importance of sibling connections in adoption, embrace the value of openness in adoption and birth family connections, find out how to provide essential post-adoption services and support and uncover the challenges and realities of adopting older children.