The Casey Center has provided an array of consultation services with several sites to advance promising practices in child welfare, including:

• Peer to peer learning opportunities with foster care, adoption and fiscal program managers from the six New England states and eight southern states from federal Region IV regarding creative strategies to finance a comprehensive array of post-adoption services with a blend of state and federal funds.
  
  
• A comprehensive study with a set of recommendations about how to increase and speed permanency through adoption for the state of Connecticut's Department of Children and Families (DCF). Follow-up consultation has included support for the development of an adoption-competent post-masters certificate program for mental health providers as well as an Adoption Assistance Program for families who have adopted through DCF.
  
  
• Training and consultation to support the Connecticut Department of Children and Families in implementation of the "Lifelong Family Ties Project" using a collaborative team planning and decision-making approach to find permanent families for older youth in foster and residential care.
  
  
• Training and consultation to support a federally-funded collaboration between Connecticut’s DCF and the Maine Bureau of Children and Family Services to implement the “Adoptions Created Through Relationships” project, using a collaborative team planning and decision-making approach to find permanent families for older youth in foster and residential care.
  
  
• Statewide adoption-competency training with Tennessee's Department of Children's Services staff and community mental health providers to enhance the development of statewide post-adoption services. Consultation to support implementation of the One Worker/One Child organizational design to support more inclusive and timely permanency planning with families and children.
  
  
• Consultation with the District of Columbia's Child and Family Services Agency related to expediting collaborative permanency planning for children and youth awaiting adoption.