National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption & Guardianship Support & Preservation

The National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) was a five-year project working with eight sites that implemented evidence-based interventions or developed and tested promising practices to achieve long-term, stable permanence in adoptive and guardianship homes.
Final QIC-AG Report
The final report for the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption and Guardianship Support and Prevention project includes an executive summary, a chapter with findings from each site and a chapter summarizing findings across sites.
Site Specific Materials
Each site implemented and tested a unique intervention. To learn more about each site, click on the site specific chapter or view the one page summary.
Winnebago Tribe
- Intervention:
- Family Group Decision Making
- Study Design:
- Descriptive
- Executive Summary:
Texas
- Intervention:
- Pathways 2 Permanence
- Study Design:
- Quasi-experimental
- Executive Summary:
Vermont
- Intervention:
- Vermont Permanency Survey
- Study Design:
- Descriptive
- Executive Summary:
Illinois
- Intervention:
- Family Group Decision Making
- Study Design:
- Experimental
- Executive Summary:
New Jersey
- Intervention:
- Tuning In to Teens (TINT)
- Study Design:
- Experimental
- Executive Summary:
Catawba County, North Carolina
- Intervention:
- Reach for Success
- Study Design:
- Experimental
- Executive Summary:
Wisconsin
- Intervention:
- Adoption and Guardianship Enhanced Support (AGES)
- Study Design:
- Descriptive
- Executive Summary:
Tennessee
- Intervention:
- Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)
- Study Design:
- Quasi-experimental
- Executive Summary:
Evaluation Team
Principal Investigators

Nancy Rolock, PhD| Co-PI, QIC-AG | Associate Professor
Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
Case Western Reserve University

Rowena Fong, EdD | Co-PI, QIC-AG | Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor
Fellow, American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare
The University of Texas at Austin, Steve Hicks School of Social Work
Team Members

Laura Marra, MSSW | Research Director
Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing
The University of Texas at Austin, Steve Hicks School of Social Work

Monica Faulkner, PhD, LMSW | Research Associate Professor | Director
Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing
The University of Texas at Austin, Steve Hicks School of Social Work

Kevin White, PhD | Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
East Carolina University

Kerrie Ocasio, PhD | Assistant Professor
Department of Graduate Social Work
West Chester University