Evaluating your family support services
Presenters share program evaluation techniques and strategies to help you get what you need from your evaluation efforts.
Support families
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.
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.
While-you-wait support groups for parents
Benefits of offering these groups include making the wait seem shorter, keeping families from giving up, and helping parents build their skills.