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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.

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.

Provides a compilation of articles on relevant research and best practice related to intercountry adoptions. Includes information on the causes of intercountry adoption discontinuity and practice advice.

Outlines Trauma-Informed Practice Strategies (TIPS) for tribal child welfare programs and caseworkers who support kinship and nonrelative caregivers of Native youth in out-of-home care. It emphasizes trauma awareness, cultural connection, caregiver support, and placement stability.

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  

Provides resources to support develoing partnership between tribal and state (or county) agencies and staff.

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