Spotlight on the National Resource Centers

This section of Children's Bureau Express features new resources and other announcements from the members of the Children's Bureau Training and Technical Assistance Network (http://nccanch.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/reslist/cbttan/index.cfm).

• Adoption Support and Preservation Services
  
  
• Permanency for Adolescents
  
  

Adoption Support and Preservation Services

The summer issue of The Roundtable, the newsletter of the National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoption, focuses on the availability and sustainability of adoption support and preservation services. A number of articles examine State programs that show promising results in their postadoption services:

• New Jersey's services include (1) a publicly funded postadoption counseling network of private agency providers, (2) an Adoption Certificate program for clinicians, and (3) the establishment of the New Jersey Adoption Resource Clearing House.
• Oregon has established the Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center to sustain adoptive families with services such as supportive listening and problem solving, information assistance, a lending library, and parent training.
• A number of additional States show promising practices, including Alabama's Post Adoption Connection, Wisconsin's six Post Adoption Resource Centers, and the Texas Post Adoption Service Program.

This issue of The Roundtable can be downloaded at www.nrcadoption.org/resources/roundtable/V18N1.pdf.

Permanency for Adolescents

The summer newsletter of the National Resource Center for Youth Development (NRCYD) focuses on permanency for adolescents, examining such options as adoption and independent living. The articles include:

• "Successful Adolescent Adoptions," which follows the stories of 49 families who adopted youth ages 12 to 19, examining the factors that made the adoptions successful.
• "CSR/Massachusetts Families for Kids--Lifelong Family Connections: An Adolescent Permanency Model," which explores seven components that assist in establishing lifelong family relationships for adolescents.
• "Merging Permanency and Independent Living: Lifelong Family Relationships and Life Skills for Older Youth," which discusses ways that the "permanency" outcome can be included with the "safety" and "well-being" outcomes for older youth.
• "The Path to Permanence: Innovative Strategies for Life Long Connections," which looks at youth-generated ideas for permanency.

The NRCYD Update can be downloaded at www.nrcys.ou.edu/PDFs/YD%20UPdate/ydusum04.pdf.