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Dr. Bonni Goodwin Received 2021 Adoption Excellence Award

Dr. Bonni Goodwin Received 2021 Adoption Excellence Award

The Adoption Excellence Awards given by the Children’s Bureau recognize outstanding accomplishments in achieving permanency for America’s children waiting in foster care. An annual program that grew out of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, these awards honor States, local...

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Three Big Reasons Adoption Competency Matters

Three Big Reasons Adoption Competency Matters

Adoption Competency Helps Kids and Families Thrive!  Many children who experience foster care and adoption have prior experienced trauma in their lives. The combination of these complex experiences can lead to behavioral and mental health difficulties. The impact of these experiences compromise...

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Bethany Christian Services Launches NTI Training

Bethany Christian Services Launches NTI Training

Strong commitment to providing education and using NTI knowledge and skills learned in practice!   All three NTI trainings made available through the agency’s learning management system: When governments across the country began issuing stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of the novel...

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How to Honor Your Child’s Birth Family

How to Honor Your Child’s Birth Family

Tony Hynes, a former foster youth, and now a Training Specialist at C.A.S.E., shares what he’s learned from relationships with both his adoptive and birth families, and how those lessons can help other foster and adoptive families. This article was published by “Fostering Families...

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NTI Extended with New Funding for FY2020

NTI Extended with New Funding for FY2020

The Children’s Bureau approved supplemental funding of the Cooperative Agreement allowing the Center for Adoption Support and Education (C.A.S.E.) to continue its work to implement the National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative.  Read the news release on the C.A.S.E. website:...

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Future of Adoption 2019 Publication Series

Future of Adoption 2019 Publication Series

The Rudd Adoption Research Program (Umass Amherst) just released its third group of papers in its Future of Adoption 2019 Publication Series, in April 2019.  NTI was pleased to have the opportunity to share adoption-related thought leadership through the research paper, “Building an Adoption...

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NTI Mental Health Training Pilot Launch in March 2018

NTI Mental Health Training Pilot Launch in March 2018

The National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI) Pilot for Mental Health Professionals Launching March 2018 Press Release: March 12, 2018 Burtonsville MD – The National Adoption Competency Mental Health Training Initiative (NTI) is announcing the availability of its...

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National Training Initiative (NTI) California & Oklahoma Kickoffs

National Training Initiative (NTI) California & Oklahoma Kickoffs

Pilot site Oklahoma held their first meeting on March 23; Tricia Howell, Deputy Director of Foster Care and Adoptions with Oklahoma Dept. of Human Services says, I think this training is foundational for anyone working with families in the child welfare system and I am very excited for our staff...

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NTI provides a foundational understanding of the core issues impacting children and youth and their foster, adoptive, and guardianship families, including the impact of loss and trauma on attachment, brain development, and behavior. NTI also provides strategies and tools that parents and caregivers can use to support their child’s healing and strengthening of attachment. NTI is also exploring the possibility of creating an adaption for parents/caregivers.

NTI provides a foundational understanding of the core issues impacting children and youth and their foster, adoptive, and guardianship families, including the impact of loss and trauma on attachment, brain development, and behavior. This understanding can assist school social workers, school counselors, and educators to understand youth behavior in the context of the child’s early experiences and provide strategies to support the child, youth and family.

NTI has a new training adaption for educators: School-based Mental Health Professionals Training. Schools and school districts can get free resources to support the well-being of K-12 students!

NTI provides a foundational understanding of the core issues impacting children and youth and their foster, adoptive, and guardianship families, including the impact of loss and trauma on attachment, brain development, and behavior as well as the connection between early adverse experiences and current functioning and physical and emotional health.

NTI is also exploring the possibility of creating an adaption for medical professionals.

NTI provides a foundational understanding of the core issues impacting children and youth and their foster, adoptive, and guardianship families, including the impact of loss and trauma on attachment, brain development, and behavior. This knowledge will help inform permanency placement decisions.

NTI is also exploring the possibility of creating an adaption for court officials.

The Training for Child Welfare Professionals will assist CASA and GAL volunteers and staff to understand the impact of trauma, loss and grief, breaks in attachment, identity formation, on children and youth as well as the specific challenges experienced by transracial/transcultural families
Social workers interact with individuals and families who have experienced adoption in many different settings. NTI provides a foundational understanding on the unique and core issues of adoption to better meet the needs of children, youth and families in foster, adoptive, guardianship and kinship relationships.

Children and youth experiencing foster care and adoption are over-represented in RTCs and are often misdiagnosed or prescribed psychotropic medications for symptoms that relate to trauma experiences and unresolved loss and grief. NTI training will prepare staff to understand and address the issues relating to loss, grief, trauma, breaks in attachment, identity formation, etc.

Children and youth experiencing foster care and adoption are often misdiagnosed or over-prescribed psychotropic medications when their symptoms relate to trauma experiences and unresolved loss and grief. NTI will prepare staff to understand and address the issues relating to loss, grief, trauma, breaks in attachment, identity formation, etc... that children in foster care, adoption or guardianship may be experiencing. NTI also creates system change by improving collaboration between the child welfare and mental health service systems through aligned curriculum that uses shared language and provides understanding about the impact of loss and trauma on attachment and behavior.

NTI provides a foundational understanding of the core issues impacting children and youth and their foster, adoptive, and guardianship families. NTI also creates system change by improving collaboration between the child welfare and mental health service systems through aligned curriculum that uses shared language and provides understanding about the impact of loss and trauma on attachment and behavior.

Adoption is a lifelong journey and the core issues of adoption can impact the family through developmental stages from childhood into adulthood.  NTI provides training to increase the knowledge, values and skills critical to understanding and supporting families post adoption to enhance family stability and well-being.

NTI provides a foundational understanding of the core issues impacting children and youth and their foster and adoptive families, including the impact of loss and trauma on attachment, brain development, and behavior. NTI provides strategies for addressing the loss and grief issues inherent in adoption (for all members of the triad) and how important is it to prepare families for developmental challenges ahead.

NTI provides staff across the child welfare continuum with free training that focuses on understanding the impact of loss and trauma on attachment and behavior. NTI provides effective strategies for working with children, youth, and parents to address the challenges that often lead to placement changes in foster care and disruption or dissolution in adoption.

NTI provides free online training that is consistent with FFPSA requirements for a skilled, competent, trauma-informed workforce and addresses several CFSR indicators. Because it is web-based, NTI is accessible to staff throughout your jurisdiction on-demand.

NTI also creates system change by improving collaboration between the child welfare and mental health service systems through aligned curricula that uses shared language and provides shared understanding about the impact of loss and trauma on attachment and behavior.

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