Discover – AdoptUSKids for professionals

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Managing stress through mindfulness

June 1, 2021

NTI Implementation Specialist Lisa Maynard offers 10 tips to help you keep calm and centered in the present moment and avoid burnout.

Minority leadership program Q&A

WEBINAR

In this webinar, participants had their questions about applying for the Minority Professional Leadership Development (MPLD) program answered by the program director.

Supporting the identity of children adopted transracially

April 8, 2021

A graduate of the AdoptUSKids Minority Professional Leadership Development program talks about the training she developed to help families and workers understand and address issues related to transracial adoption.

Screening resource families in to a role where they can succeed

February 25, 2021

As a participant in the AdoptUSKids Minority Professional Leadership Development program, April Ludwig improved her agency’s recruitment and retention strategies.

How tribal values and traditions can guide recruitment, development, and support of resource families

TIP SHEET

AdoptUSKids worked with tribal consultants to provide this information to help you,
as a tribal child welfare administrator, ground resource family support efforts in tribal
culture and have tribal values, language, traditions, and teachings guide your work with
resource families.

Fostering ties between resource and birth families in tribal child welfare practice

TIP SHEET

This tip sheet, created in partnership with tribal consultants, offers tribal child welfare administrators tips for supporting resource families who are acting as extended family.