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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.
Article

Trust-Based Relational Intervention® Caregiver Training

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

Trust-Based Relational Intervention® Web Page

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.
Article

Understanding Child Trauma

Provides an overview of the impact of traumatic stress on children and links to other resources, including an infographic.
Webinar

Understanding Secondary Traumatic Stress for Parent Group Leaders

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.
Guide/Report

Universal: Post-Permanence Interval

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.
Article

Unlocking and Addressing the Barriers to Retention of African American Families

Explores how an agency stepped up its efforts to support and retain African American families for children in foster care by offering specialized supports such as help with obtaining clearances, face-to-face assistance with paperwork, immediate assignment to a profile/home study writer, and ongoing support through the approval process.
Video

Unraveling Adoption

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.
Video

Using Facebook Groups to Provide Family Support After Placement

Explores the North American Council on Adoptable Children’s experience in offering various online support groups to more than 2,000 parents across Minnesota. Topics will include the benefits of online support groups, key considerations in implementation, challenges to plan for, and strategies for moderating the groups to ensure effective support.
Guide/Report

Vermont Implementation Manual: Vermont Permanency Survey

Explores in detail how Vermont implemented a survey for adoptive/guardianship families to complete to provide information about their child and family well-being and use of existing services to help sites determine support needs. Provides information to help other sites determine if the survey would work for their jurisdiction and prepare for implementation.

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