A comprehensive guide on supporting families

This comprehensive guide is intended to equip state, tribal, and territorial child welfare managers and administrators—as well as family support organizations—with current information about effective strategies for developing data-driven family support services and research findings to help them make the case for implementing and sustaining these services.

Author: AdoptUSKids

Published: 2015

View the guide

Support Matters: Lessons from the Field on Services for Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Care Families (1.4 MB PDF)

Individual chapters and tools

• Chapter 1 (237 KB PDF)
• Chapter 2 (570 KB PDF)
• Chapter 3 (660 KB PDF)
• Chapter 4 (400 KB PDF)
• Chapter 5 (450 KB PDF)
• Support Matters end notes (100 KB PDF)
• Ways to Use the Support Matters Guide in Your Work (90 KB PDF)
• Support Matters family engagement assessment tool (90 KB PDF)