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.
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Evaluating your family support services
Presenters share program evaluation techniques and strategies to help you get what you need from your evaluation efforts.
Going to the extreme to find children’s families
With a combination of sleuthing, advocacy, and support, 80 percent of the children served by this program are matched with permanency resources, and 90 percent are connected with lifelong support.
Why should leaders assess their family support services?
Learn what two public agency leaders had to say about assessing their post-adoption support services.
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.
Addressing grief and loss in family support efforts
Presenters share tools and strategies to increase staff knowledge about grief and loss and examples of programs that are addressing these issues in services for resource families.