A comprehensive guide on supporting families

Explore effective strategies for developing data-driven family support services. Learn how to review research findings to help make the case for implementing and sustaining your support services. Use this guide to deepen your understanding of the early stages of implementation, with chapters one through three helping you explore the needs of adoptive, foster, and kinship care families as well as programs and services others have found to be successful. Chapter four suggests a possible implementation strategy by partnering with family support organizations or other nonprofit partners in your area. In chapter five, get advice from your colleagues and from the field on what can make implementation of a new family support service or program the most successful.