Required ANCHOR Deliverables
Platform Components
Every element the ANCHOR model requires — service delivery, training, evaluation, implementation, replication, and dissemination — organized under a single ecosystem.
Birth Parent Self-Assessment, Normalization, and Exploration Framework
A trauma- and adoption-informed engagement process that helps birth parents understand, validate, and contextualize their post-adoption journey.
Birth Parent Informal Support Network Preparation Program
Equips family, friends, clergy, healthcare, educators, and employers to provide compassionate, informed, nonjudgmental support to birth parents.
Support Group Curriculum
A structured, professionally facilitated, evidence-informed program organized around the ROOTS domains.
Clinical Services Curriculum
A structured treatment framework for adoption-competent therapists integrating grief theory, trauma-informed care, and adoption-specific interventions.
Case Management Curriculum
A structured, strengths-based approach helping birth parents identify needs, access services, and navigate support systems across the lifespan.
Peer Mentoring Preparation, Support, and Connection Model
A comprehensive approach for selecting, training, supervising, and supporting birth parent mentors.
Outreach and Recruitment Toolkit
A comprehensive marketing, engagement, and referral package designed to increase awareness, accessibility, and participation.
Dedicated Lifespan Follow-Up & Life Course Grief Framework
A dedicated contact navigation process for engaging birth parents across the entire post-adoption lifespan.
Resource Navigation System and Program Catalog
A centralized, searchable service ecosystem that connects birth parents to personalized supports, information, and opportunities.
Referral and Matching Service Directory
A dynamic matchmaking platform connecting birth parents to adoption-competent providers, peer mentors, and community services.
Baseline and Outcome Measures
A standardized approach to evaluating participant needs, progress, and program effectiveness across the journey.
Mixed-Methods Evaluation Data System
Integrates quantitative and qualitative information for a comprehensive understanding of outcomes, implementation, and quality.
Fidelity Measures
Ensures organizations implement the Model consistently while permitting meaningful local adaptation.
Implementation Guide (Step-by-Step Process)
A comprehensive roadmap taking organizations from exploration and readiness through full-scale implementation and sustainability.
Adaptable Facilitator Manuals
Detailed guidance for leading support groups, peer mentoring, workshops, and clinical interventions with room for local adaptation.
Adaptable Replication Toolkits
A complete package of resources implementation sites need to reproduce, adapt, and sustain the ANCHOR model.
Dissemination Materials
Transforms program findings, implementation lessons, and best practices into accessible products for national sharing.
Report Development and Support
Structured assistance for collecting, analyzing, visualizing, and communicating program data.
National and Local Knowledge-Sharing Repository
The central learning hub for all participating organizations, facilitators, researchers, evaluators, and stakeholders.
Organizational and Clinical Advisory Committee (OCAC)
The primary strategic, clinical, implementation, evaluation, and lived-experience advisory body for the Model.