Risk & Protective Factors for Discontinuity in Public Adoption and Guardianship

Researchers from the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing conducted a literature review on discontinuity in adoption in partnership with the National Quality Improvement Center for Adoption & Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG).

QIC-AG is a national project designed to promote permanence when reunification is no longer a goal. The project also aims to improve adoption and guardianship stability, preservation, and support. In pursuit of this goal, 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.

To understand existing information on discontinuity in adoption, the TXICFW researchers completed a literature review to provide information to its partnering sites and the general public. The new literature review offers QIC-AG partnering sites and the general public an overview of existing information on discontinuity in adoption. The review seeks to understand the risk factors that lead to post-permanency instability, also termed discontinuity, in adoption and guardianship. This will help guide current and future interventions for families formed by adoption and guardianship.

In addition to the literature review, TXICFW researchers released a more comprehensive list of citations relevant to the QIC-AG target populations. Both products are also available on the QIC-AG website.

Read the literature review and list of citations:

Risk & Protective Factors for Discontinuity in Public Adoption and Guardianship
Literature Related to Adoption and Guardianship, Permanence, and Well-Being.