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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.

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.

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.

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.

Guides viewers through the nuanced aspects of raising a child of color in a multiracial family. This video provides insight into the child’s physiological, safety, interpersonal, emotional and achievement-based needs in relation to their racial and cultural identify. The presenter offers practical tools for building environments and relationships that facilitate racial and cultural identity development in a healthy, effective, and supportive manner.

Offers guidance from the perspectives of a psychologist, transracial adoptee of color, and transracial adoptive parent on how racial and cultural identity affects the psychological, safety, interpersonal, and emotional needs of a child.

Guides viewers through the nuanced aspects of raising a child of color in a multiracial family. This video provides insight into the child’s physiological, safety, interpersonal, emotional and achievement-based needs in relation to their racial and cultural identify. The presenter offers practical tools for building environments and relationships that facilitate racial and cultural identity development in a healthy, effective, and supportive manner.

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.

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.

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.