Project Overview
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
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
This project was completed in 2019. Please contact the Principal Investigator with any questions.