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Promising Practices for Serving Transgender and Non-Binary Foster and Adoptive Parents

March 25, 2025 by NJ ARCH Editor

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Beginner Guide to LGBTQ Inclusion

March 25, 2025 by NJ ARCH Editor

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Adoption by the Numbers 2021 & 2022

March 20, 2025 by NJ ARCH Editor

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Parents’ Handbook

September 23, 2024 by NJ ARCH Editor

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Parenting is rewarding, but it is not always easy. When problems arise in a family, it is often the children who are emotionally or physically affected. Unfortunately, some parents do not know
where to turn to get help for their children or themselves. This handbook was written to explain the role of CP&P workers and other staff who work together to serve you and your family.
CP&P recognizes this can be a very difficult time for you and your family. You may have many questions along the way, so feel free to speak to your worker about your concerns at anytime.

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An-Enhanced-Family-Crisis-Handbook-A-Behavioral-Health-and-Wellness-Toolkit-2024

April 13, 2024 by NJ ARCH Editor

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The purpose of this expanded version of the Toolkit is to empower individuals with disabilities and their family
and professional caregivers by providing information to more effectively advocate for persons with complex
severe behavioral health conditions (which we formerly referred to as “dual diagnosis”) for treatments, supports,
services and the conditions that promote mental wellness. Individuals with diagnoses of developmental
disabilities and behavioral health disorders face multiple challenges in their daily lives. Some of these
challenges relate to the behavioral health conditions themselves. Other barriers include the shortage of qualified
medical and non-medical behavioral health providers and the failure to give mental health and behavioral
disorders the same attention as with medical disorders. Individuals of all ages with intellectual and
developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges, therefore, face the barriers of limited access to
needed services, lack of equality and problems with obtaining and affording care.

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US: New Data Shows a Consistent Decrease of Children in Foster Care (Includes audio) (Press release)

March 27, 2024 by NJ ARCH Editor

US: New Data Shows a Consistent Decrease of Children in Foster Care (Includes audio) (Press release)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families – March 20, 2024

Today, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced newly released Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) data. According to the report, the number of children in foster care has decreased for the fourth consecutive year. The collective effort to find ways to serve children and families outside of foster care continues to grow. The Family First Prevention Services Act helped change the conversation to be about prevention of foster care placements and preservation of families. The growing number of states and tribal nations with approved plans – which includes 42 states, 4 tribes, and the District of Columbia – is anticipated to maintain the decline in the use of foster care and subsequently the decrease in entries.

Also: Federal Report: Foster Care Total Dropped Again in 2022 (Requires subscription): https://imprintnews.org/youth-services-insider/federal-report-foster-care-total-dropped-again-in-2022/248238

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/media/press/2024/new-data-shows-consistent-decrease-children-foster-care

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Building Resilience: Supporting Grandfamilies’ Mental Health & Wellness, 2023

December 12, 2023 by NJ ARCH Editor

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Building Resilience: Supporting Grandfamilies’ Mental Health & Wellness, 2023

The latest report from Generations United on grandparents raising grandchildren and relatives.  Information includes how grandparents’ challenges effect mental health, various findings, services, supports and more.

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Stepping Out of Adoption’s Shadow

November 21, 2023 by NJ ARCH Editor

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Stepping Out of Adoption’s Shadow: Confronting the Problem of Unlicensed Adoption Intermediaries and Online Advertising in Private Domestic Adoption
Adoption Advocate No 176

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Adoption Advocate

August 29, 2023 by NJ ARCH Editor

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Adoption creates a split between a person’s biology and biography, and openness is an essential way to help adoptees heal this split.1
This article covers what openness means in the context of adoption and how adoptive parents can, through openness, help adoptees
integrate and heal. There are three shifts adoptive parents can make—supported by adoption professionals—to better focus on
what really matters. This article addresses situations faced by adoptive parents who have contact with birth parents, those who do not
and feel that is just as well, and, finally, those who wish to be in contact with birth parents but, for various reasons, are not.

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Exploring Medication for Adopted Children: Mental Health and Behavioral Treatment Options

July 27, 2023 by NJ ARCH Editor

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Exploring Medication for Adopted Children: Mental Health and Behavioral Treatment Options

Published by the Adoption Advocate, July 2023, Issue Number 173

The adoption community has made great progress in understanding the impact of trauma on children’s mental health and emotional well-being. As more adoptive parents seek healing for their children through mental health services, they are part of an overall rise in the general population of children and adolescents whose mental health and behavioral treatment plans involve medication. In this issue of the Adoption Advocate, child psychiatrist Joshua Sparrow outlines common concerns and considerations for psychotropic medications, when to worry, tips for observing, describing, and understanding your child’s behavior, and how to develop a team approach for parents, children, doctors, and teachers.

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