Beyond the search: Supporting potential families after family-finding efforts
Suggestions for providing emotional and logistical support and helping family members access the specific services that are available to them.
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Congratulations to the latest APLD graduates!
In September, the third cohort of the program graduated in a three-day online ceremony.
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.