FAM-25-039 Attachment L VDSS Post Adoption Services and Support Logic Model.pdf
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- RFP-118530
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- Virginia
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This is a Logic Model attachment supporting the Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS) Request for Proposals for Regional Post Permanency Consortia Services. The document outlines the theoretical framework and operational pathway for post-adoption services designed to reduce adoption instability and breakdown across VDSS's five regions: Central, Eastern, Piedmont, Northern, and Western. The logic model identifies the resources, activities, outputs, and outcomes necessary to provide comprehensive support to adoptive families, including staff training in adoption competency and culturally appropriate service provision, outreach and education activities, information and referral services, parent and youth peer support, case management, clinical services, psychological assessment, outpatient mental health services, respite care, and crisis support. The model establishes performance metrics for tracking the number of staff trained, outreach activities conducted, families served, and referrals facilitated among service providers.
The Logic Model establishes short-term, intermediate, and long-term outcome objectives that measure the effectiveness of post-permanency services. Short-term outcomes focus on ensuring consortium and local Department of Social Services (LDSS) staff are competent in adoption services and that families are aware of available resources. Intermediate outcomes address the quality and accessibility of adoption-competent services, while long-term outcomes prioritize the stability, safety, and permanency of adoptive families and the successful development of adopted children into functioning adults. The model assumes that trauma history, normative adoption stressors, and biological and experiential challenges necessitate coordinated services involving VDSS grants, adoption financial assistance, regional consortium partners, local DSS services, Medicaid, faith communities, private agencies, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and juvenile courts to effectively meet the needs of adoptive families.
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VDSS Post Adoption Services and Support Logic Model to Explain Pathway for Post-Adoption Services to Help Reduce Adoption Instability and Breakdown.
Assumptions: The prevalence of trauma prior to adoption, the normative stressors of adoption, and other biological and experiential (e.g., physical health, cultural, and/or racial) challenges that may have existed prior to and apart from the adoption, are all possible reasons families may need assistance. To reduce the likelihood of adoption instability, parents must deeply understand the child’s history and its implications for realistic expectations, appropriate parenting strategies, and types of support the child and family are likely to need in the future; children must understand their stories, process related emotions, and form new healthy attachments; and post-adoption service providers need to understand the complexity of factors influencing well-being, so they can appropriately assess and counsel families and provide referrals to community service providers as needed.
Resources
Available
➔ Post Adoption Activities and Inputs ➔ Outputs/Short-Term ➔ Intermediate/
Long-Term
• VDSS Post-
Adoption Grants
• Adoption
Financial
Assistance
• Regional
Consortium
Partners
• Local DSS services
• Medicaid
• Faith Community
• Private Agencies
• Health Care
Providers
• Educational
Institutions
• Juvenile Court
• CSA Policy and
Management
• Community
Service Providers
Staff
• Training in adoption competency and culturally appropriate service provision
• Outreach to adoptive families
• Promotion to families of available resources
• Education for community about adoption to reduce stigma and improve support array
• Coordination among services providers to facilitate referrals
Families
• Training/Preparation
• Information and Referral
• Ongoing Education
• Parent and Youth Peer Support
• Case Management
• Assistance with Birth Family Contact
• Clinical Services
• Psychological Assessment
• Outpatient Mental Health
• Respite
• Crisis Support
Outputs
• # of staff trained in adoption competence and culturally appropriate service provision
• # of, types, and attendance at outreach activities
• # of, types, and parents receiving promotional materials
• # of, types, and attendance at community education activities
• # and types of referrals among providers
• # of families receiving needed services
Short-term
• Consortium and LDSS staff are competent to provide service to meet the needs of adoptive families, and know where to refer families as needed
• Families know what services and support are available and reach out to providers when needed
• Families receive appropriate services from trained competent professionals
Intermediate
Quality of services available to families
Gaps in service availability
Adoption competent service providers
Families access to high quality adoption competent services as needed
Long-term
• Adoptive families are stable, safe, nurturing, and permanent
• Adopted children thrive and meet their full potential as functioning adults
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