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Addresses how adoption influences healthy separation from parents, identity formation, and decisions related to sexuality by focusing on six key areas of vulnerability around the adoption experience.

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.

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.

Provides an overview of how Catawba County planned to implement Reach for Success, which is a structured early-outreach program designed to identify adoptive families who might be at higher risk for post-permanency discontinuity and may benefit from Success Coach post-adoption services.

Provides information about various funding streams that jurisdictions are using to fund support services for adoptive, foster, and kinship families. (see pages 285–289)

Provides introductory information on brain development and how it may be affected by abuse and neglect, including the resulting emotional, mental, and behavioral impacts. Describes the implications and considerations for child welfare practice, such as prevention; early intervention; and working with caregivers, including parents, kin caregivers, foster parents, and others.

Describes causes of burnout and offer tips for leaders to help reduce the risks for their staff.