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Explica qué son los factores de protección y da ejemplos de cómo pueden identificarse en situaciones de la vida real. Esta hoja informativa para familias también ofrece consejos y recursos para ayudar a padres y madres a fortalecer y aplicar cada factor en sus propias vidas para ayudar a su familia a salir adelante. Explains what protective factors are and gives examples of what they can look like in real-life situations. This factsheet for families also offers tips and resources to help parents strengthen and apply each factor in their own lives to help their family thrive.

Summarizes what foster parents should consider while deciding whether to adopt the child or youth in their care. This factsheet does not address the specifics of how to adopt; it provides information on the differences between foster care and adoption, advantages of foster parent adoption, strategies for foster/adoptive families, and useful references.

Provides an overview of the foundational elements of the family engagement approach, followed by strategies and promising practices for implementing this approach.

Provides suggestions for finding an adoption-competent therapist and offers information about the types of therapy that can help adopted children and their families. Foster parents considering adoption could face similar issues and therefore also may find definitions and descriptions in this factsheet useful.

Provides child welfare professionals with a brief overview of forensic interviewing so they can better understand how such interviews affect their practice with children and families. Forensic interviewing is a means of gathering information from a victim or witness for use in a legal setting, such as a court hearing and is a key component of many child protective services investigations.

Outlines a list of resources found on the Child Welfare Information Gateway website that focus on enhancing quality community-based collaboration.
The child welfare system can and should be designed to protect children by keeping families safe, healthy, and together whenever possible. Rather than being a substitute for parents, foster care can be a critical support for families when parents, for whatever reason, have lost much of their protective capacity. So what does it mean for birth parents and foster parents to truly work together in support of children’s well-being? Here is list of resources found on the Child Welfare Information Gateway website that focus on enhancing foster/birth parent partnerships.

Addresses some of the concerns that LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, and other diverse identities and expressions, including Two-Spirit) prospective foster and adoptive parents may encounter when deciding to foster or adopt a child or navigating the process. The landscape of parenting options for LGBTQ+ individuals and couples has grown considerably in recent years, with an increasing number of LGBTQ+ parents choosing to build their families through fostering or adoption. Although many agencies, both public and private, are welcoming to the LGBTQ+ community, LGBTQ+ foster and adoptive parents continue to face challenges related to adoption.

Provides parents (birth, foster, and adoptive) and other caregivers with information about the best way to resolve their differences with a service provider or other child welfare professional. Since child welfare agency policies and procedures are State-specific, this factsheet presents information from a national perspective and points to additional resources about where to find information related to a particular State. The information and resources provided in this factsheet address the majority of complaints associated with the child protective services system.