Resource Library

Enhances cultural competence when serving American Indian and Alaska Native communities. It covers regional differences, cultural customs, spirituality, communication styles, the role of veterans and older adults, and health disparities.

Demonstrates how jurisdictions use data to inform their planning and decision-making. Includes D.C. child welfare agency leaders explaining how they work with partners to use their different data lenses to understand the needs of families and to structure a set of services to best meet the full spectrum of needs. Describes how Kentucky child welfare agency leaders find the story behind the numbers to transform their system.

Defines various types of adoption discontinuity and explores data on the number of adoption/guardianship disruptions and dissolutions as well as parent, child, and systemic factors that affect placement stability.

Discusses ways in which adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) impose challenges to the developing brain. Reviews data pointing to the effectiveness of early intervention in addressing neurodevelopmental consequences associated with maltreatment or institutional rearing.

Explores different models of supervision being used by organizations who have parent peer support staff and offers key strategies for supervising this staff.

Explores how workers in a tribal child welfare agency can support families at every stage, even when they already have a full plate of work. 

This discussion guide accompanies the Engaging Kinship Caregivers video training series.  This guide helps program directors, supervisors, and trainers lead group sessions to deepen learning experiences.

Explores how kinship creates interruptions of the caregiver’s plans, priorities, space and privacy and how these can contribute to feelings of loss and ambivalence for the relative caregiver.

Explores a universal truth: Loyalty runs deep in families.  Shared blood, history, memories and interdependence hold families together.  This video shows child welfare professionals and clinicians how to navigate these issues.

Explores how one person’s hope can be another person’s denial. Understanding how important hope is for family members is critical to empathetically working with them to maintain these hopes and to make other plans-for the sake of the child in their care.