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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.

Helps tribes assess and improve the services offered to foster, kinship, adoptive, and customary adoptive families. Includes the assessment tool and a companion guide.

Is the companion user’s guide to an assessment tool that helps tribes assess and improve the services offered to foster, kinship, adoptive, and customary adoptive families.

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

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.

Explores how child welfare professionals can enhance their ability to work with LGBTQ+ foster and adoptive parents, including by understanding themselves, knowing their agency, creating a safe environment, and building relationships.

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

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.

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.

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.