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.
Family support strategies
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.
Evaluating your family support services
Presenters share program evaluation techniques and strategies to help you get what you need from your evaluation efforts.
Why should leaders assess their family support services?
Learn what two public agency leaders had to say about assessing their post-adoption support services.
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.
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.