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The most popular child welfare resources for professionals

Screenshot of the cover of a discussion guide, which reads: Supporting a Positive Racial Identity for Black, Indigenous, and Other Children of Color in Transracial Placements with White Parents. September 2022."

This discussion guide and several other resources were popular with child welfare professionals last year.

A tool, a guide, some strategies, and lessons learned—have you checked out these resources? They were the most-viewed content on this site in 2023.

Assessing the racial and ethnic cultural competence of your support services

Child welfare agencies have a responsibility to recruit and support foster and adoptive families of color to meet the needs of youth who are overrepresented in foster care—including Black, Indigenous, and Latinx youth. This tool will help get you started in building more culturally competent support services.

How do we start preventing adoption and guardianship disruption?

Many youth have trauma that is compounded when “permanent” families turn out to not be so permanent after all. Here are strategies to address this problem.

The impact of the Great Resignation in child welfare

The Great Resignation forced many work sectors to adapt to meet a new era of professionals: those willing to walk out the door when their needs aren’t met.

How can we reduce congregate care placements? Lessons from South Carolina

In 2019, over 51% of teens in South Carolina’s foster care system lived in congregate care, also known as group homes. Two years later, there had been a 15% decrease in congregate care place.

AdoptUSKids

AdoptUSKids

AdoptUSKids authors include experts in child welfare, communications, evaluation, and/or technology from across the United States. Together, they drive the AdoptUSKids project, as it supports foster and adoptive families, raises awareness about the nationwide need for more of these families, and provides resources to child welfare systems and professionals.