Resource Library

Provides listeners with a lived experience perspective from Ms. Alicia Murray. In this episode, listeners will explore the challenges of foster care and adoption journey, discover the profound importance of sibling connections in adoption, embrace the value of openness in adoption and birth family connections, find out how to provide essential post-adoption services and support and uncover the challenges and realities of adopting older children.

Identifies the nine stages of evaluation and presents examples of how to incorporate culturally responsive and equitable evaluation into each stage.

Defines trauma-responsive and LGBTQ+ affirming care, outline principles for providing this type of care, and presents scenarios for how youth-supporting professionals can incorporate this care into their practice. Although examples are related to sexual and reproductive health services, applies to serving LGBTQ+ children and youth in other programs as well.

Explores in detail how Vermont implemented a survey for adoptive/guardianship families to complete to provide information about their child and family well-being and use of existing services to help sites determine support needs. Provides information to help other sites determine if the survey would work for their jurisdiction and prepare for implementation.

Is a survey that Vermont used—and other jurisdictions can use or adapt—to assess the needs of their adoptive/guardianship families. Includes questions about child and family well-being and the use of existing services.

Provides a brief overview of Vermont’s plan to survey adoptive/guardianship families about their child and family well-being and use of existing services to help the state determine support needs.

Explains burnout, compassion fatigue, and vicarious trauma and provides suggestions for ways to prevent vicarious trauma, including by teaching providers about it. Discusses screening and self-assessment tools and developing a more supportive culture. 

Reports findings from conservations with 129 young people adopted from foster care, including information on the importance of adoption preparation and support for the entire family.

Provides an easy-to-understand explanation of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and how ACEs can lead to toxic stress. Offers tips to reduce the impact of toxic stress.

Details the role and significance of kinship navigator programs and highlights examples of evidence-based kinship navigator programs in various states.