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Training for Adoption Competency

Mental health clinicians and child welfare professionals working with adopted children and youth, birth families, and families formed through adoption

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Child Welfare Workforce Development and Support Programs
Scientific Rating 3

Child Welfare System Relevance Level

High

Parent-Child Care

Caregiver and child age 1-10 years who has or is at high-risk of developing behavior problems or who is adjusting to a new home or family situation

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Disruptive Behavior Treatment (Child & Adolescent)
Scientific Rating 3

Parent Training Programs that Address Behavior Problems in Children and Adolescents
Scientific Rating 3

Child Welfare System Relevance Level

Medium

Intensive Parent Model

Parents of children, ages 3-18, with either mental health disorders or intellectual disabilities

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Parent Training Programs that Address Behavior Problems in Children and Adolescents
Scientific Rating NR

Child Welfare System Relevance Level

Medium

Signposts for Building Better Behaviour

Parents of children with an intellectual disability who display difficult behaviours

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Disruptive Behavior Treatment (Child & Adolescent)
Scientific Rating NR

Child Welfare System Relevance Level

Medium

Safe Families for Children

Parents in crisis and their children from birth to 18 years of age who are in need of safe place to temporarily live

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Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (Secondary) Programs
Scientific Rating 3

Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (Primary) Programs
Scientific Rating NR

Child Welfare System Relevance Level

High

Family Hui

Parents of children birth to five years old

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Parent Training Programs that Address Child Abuse and Neglect
Scientific Rating NR

Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (Primary) Programs
Scientific Rating NR

Child Welfare System Relevance Level

High

Kinship Navigator Program – Family Connections Grantee Model

Kinship caregivers, such as grandparents, other relatives (aunts/uncles, older siblings, etc.), and “fictive kin,” who are raising children (from birth to age 18) because the children’s biological parents are unable to do so

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Kinship Caregiver Support Programs
Scientific Rating NR

Child Welfare System Relevance Level

High

Kinship Navigator Program – Arizona

Kinship caregivers, such as grandparents, other relatives (aunts/uncles, older siblings, etc.), and fictive kin,” who are raising children (from birth to age 18) because the children’s biological parents are unable to do so

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Kinship Caregiver Support Programs
Scientific Rating NR

Child Welfare System Relevance Level

High

WisdomPath Way Reparative Parenting Approach

Parents (biological, foster, or adoptive) who are raising children who have experienced significant trauma

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Alternatives to Long-Term Residential Care Programs
Scientific Rating NR

Child Welfare System Relevance Level

Medium

Just Beginning (JB) Program

Noncustodial young incarcerated fathers of children between the ages of 2 months and 3 years; can also be used with incarcerated young mothers

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Visitation Programs
Scientific Rating NR

Child Welfare System Relevance Level

High