Keeping kids connected to their culture through kinship placements
Through his action research project, MPLD fellow Gilbert Soto identified barriers to kinship placements and helped to increase those placements in New Jersey.
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2020 MPLD fellows share research projects with leaders in Washington, DC
Graduates of the 2020 MPLD program at AdoptUSKids networked, celebrated, and discussed their work during a June poster session.
Managing stress through mindfulness
NTI Implementation Specialist Lisa Maynard offers 10 tips to help you keep calm and centered in the present moment and avoid burnout.
Screening resource families in to a role where they can succeed
As a participant in the AdoptUSKids MPLD 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
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
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.