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The Hidden Hurdles and Benefits of Kinship Care and Adoption

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.
Video

The Hierarchy of Racial and Cultural Needs of Transracial Adoptees and Fosterees (Part 1 of 2)

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.
Webinar

The Hierarchy of Racial and Cultural Needs of Transracial Adoptees and Fosterees (Part 1)

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.
Video

The Hierarchy of Racial and Cultural Needs of Transracial Adoptees and Fosterees (Part 2 of 2)

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.
Article

The Impact of Adoption

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.
Article

The Impact of Adoption on Teen Identity Formation

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.
Article

The Impact of Leadership Turnover on Child Welfare Initiatives

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.
Article

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.
Article

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.

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