Last October the Steve Hicks School’s Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing released findings from the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation.
Through this five-year project, a multidisciplinary research team worked with eight sites across the nation (Texas, Vermont, Illinois, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Catawba County in North Carolina, and the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) to implement evidence-based interventions or develop and test promising practices to achieve long-term, stable permanence in adoptive and guardianship homes.
Read how the research team adapted the work to gain the trust and operate within the cultural values of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska.