Resource Library

Helps measure the agency’s capacity to engage families and identify areas for improvement.

Offers a survey for families that agencies can use or adapt to help determine what services adoptive, foster, and kinship care parents need to support their children and family.

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.

Helps agencies build more culturally competent support services by conducting their own assessment in the areas of families served, staffing, and environment and culture. Offers information about how to understand the results of the assessment and plan for changes.

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.

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.

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.