Professors Monica Faulkner, Tina Adkins, Rowena Fong and colleagues reviewed years of research to summarize the risk factors that lead to discontinuity in adoption and guardianship. The purpose of this literature review was to understand the risk factors that lead to post-permanency instability, also termed discontinuity, in adoption and guardianship to guide current and future interventions for families. Read the report, “Risk and protective factors for discontinuity in public adoption and guardianship. A review of the literature,” (January 2017).
This report was part of the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption & Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG), a national project designed to promote permanence when reunification is no longer a goal, and to improve adoption and guardianship stability, preservation, and support. The QIC-AG is working with eight states over five years to implement and test interventions to achieve long-term stable permanence in adoptive and guardianship homes.
The QIC-AG is funded through a five-year cooperative agreement between the Children’s Bureau, Spaulding for Children, and its partners the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.