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Explores 12 questions administrators can ask about their support services to ensure they are most effective for families, including: Are providers adoption-and permanency competent? Is the service trauma informed and responsive? Are parents, caregivers, and youth involved in service design and improvement? Offers additional resources for making improvements or conducting assessments.

Provides information from program and state leaders about implementing an intensive in-home program designed to support families of children who have more challenging needs.

Explores an intensive in-home program designed to support families of children who have more serious needs.

Shares general information about an intensive in-home program designed to support families of children who have more serious needs.

Provides child welfare professionals with the steps for building the case, some elements to consider during the process and an example of how this effort might look for a site. The second resource, Funding Sources for Post-Permanency Services, explores some of the most common options that states can use to fund post-permanency programs, outlining the strengths and challenges inherent in each. This article is intended to provide a general overview of the different funding sources that states might consider when looking to fund a post-permanency program. Funding Sources for Post-Permanency Services Introduction to the Resources Watch the video below for [...]

Discusses how relationships provide the safety, stability and connection that help to mitigate early childhood trauma and compromised attachments. Sites can use this article’s strategies to assist families increase their primary, community and professional resources that create a therapeutic web for the child. Introduction to the Resource Watch the video below for an overview of the resource or click on the button to access the article directly.        

Explains the need for adoption-competent services and presents the findings of a study of the NTI training, which saw significant increases in participants’ knowledge gains across the modules.

Discusses the importance of building strong partnerships and coalitions to support kinship caregivers-relatives and close family friends who raise children when parents are unable to do so. This article emphasizes the need for trust, clear goals, and inclusivity in collaboration efforts to ensure kinship families receive essential resources. The article underscores how collective action among service organizations strengthens support systems for kinship families, ensuring their long-term stability and well-being.

Emphasizes the mental health and emotional well-being of grandfamilies, bringing attention to mental health challenges prevalent in children, caregivers and birth parents pre- and post-permanency. This report provides innovative solutions and resources to strengthen support for these families while offering policy and program recommendations for child welfare professionals.

Helps agencies offer a 12- to 16-hour curriculum designed to help caregivers understand trauma and its effects, see behaviors as symptoms of trauma, and learn how best to respond to children who have experienced trauma. Offers practical ideas to enable parents and caregivers to become trauma-informed and trauma-responsive—and thus to help children and youth heal and thrive.