I have had the privilege to serve in several Federal Projects providing technology solutions, support and training for the following:

Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship – QIC-AG

The National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) is a five-year project working with eight sites that will implement evidence-based interventions or develop and test promising practices which if proven effective can be replicated or adapted in other child welfare jurisdictions.

Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) – The Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) is a partnership among the Department of Human Services (DHS), the Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange, public and private adoption agencies, organizations, advocates, judges, the legal community, and foster and adoptive parents.

Mi-Team Makes Great Families (M2GF)

Project is a three year cooperative agreement Between the Federal Department of Health and Human Services-the Children’s Bureau and Spaulding for Children. The project is designed to enhance and intensify Spaulding’s current Search and family team meeting process and effectively integrate increased family-finding Activities and Family Group Decision Making components into family meetings as a way to support improved/increased connections with family members.

Inter-Agency Community Adoption/Foster Family Recruitment Exchange, I-CARE 365

The I-CARE 365 Project is a multi-faceted recruitment program designed to recruit, retain, train, utilize, and support a range of resource families for children and youth. Integrating the philosophy that recruitment should occur every day in all child welfare departments, the project will promote safety, permanence and well-being for Michigan children and increase positive permanency outcomes for children by:

  • Increasing awareness of the need for resource families;
  • Improving timely achievement of permanency goals for children;
  • Increasing appropriate placement resources for teens, juvenile sex offenders, youth in residential treatment settings, youth in psychiatric in-patient settings, children with disabilities or other physical care needs, African Americans and large sibling groups; and
  • Improving customer service and increasing retention rates among newly recruited resource families.

Infant Adoption Awareness Training Program: Infant Adoption Awareness Training programs, funded by the Children’s Bureau, are designed to train pregnancy and health counselors regarding how to offer adoption as an option to women with unplanned pregnancies.