Connections Matter: Relationships with Birth Families are Important for Foster, Adopted Children
Explains why connections with birth families matter to children, explores [...]
Creating Trauma-Informed Systems
Outlines key factors necessary to ensure that social service systems [...]
Early Adverse Experiences and the Developing Brain
Discusses ways in which adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) impose challenges [...]
Children Adopted from Foster Care: Adoption Agreements, Adoption Subsidies, and Other Post-Adoption Supports
Presents information on post-adoption supports and services including adoption subsidy [...]
Child Maltreatment and Brain Development: A Primer for Child Welfare Professionals
Provides introductory information on brain development and how it may [...]
Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Workshop for Resource Parents
Helps agencies offer a 12- to 16-hour curriculum designed to [...]
Building an Adoption Competent Workforce: A Review of the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative
Explains the need for adoption-competent services and presents the findings [...]
A Need to Know: Enhancing Adoption Competence among Mental Health Providers
Explores the importance of adoption competence, defines key competencies, and [...]
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resilience in Native American Families and Communities
Examines the negative impact of ACEs and the connection to [...]
Adoption Psychology: Top 25 Issues
Describes 25 psychological issues that are more common in adoption, [...]
