Congratulations to the latest MPLD graduates!
In September, the third cohort of the AdoptUSKids MPLD program graduated in a three-day online ceremony.
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Helping parents embrace trauma-responsive parenting
A parent support specialist and mother of a daughter with FASD discusses the parenting strategies needed for children who have experienced trauma, including trauma in-utero, such as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
Tending to group dynamics: four steps to success for support group leaders
Tips to help you manage one of the most challenging and important tasks you face in your leadership role.
Photolisting and inquiry response systems best practices
Presenters share strategies to help you increase your capacity to write strengths-based narratives, manage child-specific inquiries, and gain narrative approvals.
Using family-finding models to achieve permanency (part 2)
Presenters provide details on three models to family finding and engagement that AdoptUSKids helped jurisdictions replicate.
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.