Class is in session: A discussion guide to help families navigate schools
This guide is designed to help adoptive, foster, and kinship support group leaders facilitate a discussion on navigating school systems.
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.
Thank you for being a child welfare worker!
You make a difference in the lives of children and families. It’s a big job, and AdoptUSKids is here to help you.
Bringing joy, humor, and hope to the support group experience
Do you know how to tactfully use humor in tough circumstances? Or the best way to reframe negativity?
The importance of race and culture in adoption permanency decisions
In this webinar recording, a guest speaker shares what it was like to be adopted transracially. Presenters share strategies related to race and culture for making permanency decisions.
Proactively preventing adoption and guardianship disruption
Speakers share strategies to proactively address risk and protective factors that relate to adoptive placement stability.
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.