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The Importance of Cultural Competence

Defines cultural competence and it’s impact on how child welfare professionals interact and engage with families of a different race, gender and socio-economic status, etc. This resource provides four components to cultural competence: awareness, attitude, knowledge and skills.
Guide/Report

The Multiethnic Placement Act and Transracial Adoption 25 Years Later

Presents data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) and child welfare monitoring visits, supplemented by interviews with adoption officials and stakeholders in three states, to explore trends in transracial adoption as well as attitudes about MEPA of those involved in making adoptive placements. Offers additional information and related resources at https://aspe.hhs.gov/reports/multiethnic-placement-act-transracial-adoption-25-years-later.
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The Post-Adoption Life: Supporting Adoptees, Birth Parents, and Families After Adoption. Adoption Advocate No. 78

Provides information to adoption service providers about key issues in adoption and offers suggestions about how they can support all members of the adoption constellation. Also offers recommendations for ways to stay connected to families after placement and finalization.
Guide/Report

The Program Manager’s Guide to Evaluation

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. 
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The Resiliency-Focused Supervision Model: Addressing Stress, Burnout, and Self-Care Among Social Workers

Describes the Resiliency-Focused Supervision Model (RFSM), a culturally responsive, 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.
Guide/Report

Together at the Stable: Supporting the Nutrition, Health and Well-being of Grandfamilies

Delineates the challenges grandfamilies encounter in accessing federal nutrition programs and proposes various policy solutions to alleviate food insecurity.
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Tomando Un Descanso. Creando cuidado de relevo, de sustituto, adoptivo y familiar en su comunidad

Explora los beneficios del relevo, ofrece a líderes y administradores herramientas para diseñar e implementar un programa de atención de relevo y describe cómo desarrollar y evaluar programas de relevo.
Guide/Report

Towards a Greater Capacity: Learning from Intercountry Adoption Breakdowns  

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.
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Transracial & Transcultural Adoption: Preservation, Policy, and a Personal Perspective

Provides insights for professionals and parents on issues in transracial and transcultural adoption. Includes suggestions for ways professionals can support families to help them honor children’s heritage and give them opportunities to explore their cultural identities.
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Transracial Adoption Conversations (T.R.A.C.) Coaching: Engaging Transracial Adoptive Caregivers in Conversations on Race and Meeting Children’s Racial Identity Needs Over the Lifespan

Explains a project that used a coaching model to enhance child welfare workers’ ability to identify and address issues in transracial adoptive placements and support families to meet children and youth’s racial and cultural needs. Offers tips for professionals to use in conversations with transracial parents.

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