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Preplacement Adoption Casework Practice
In this section you will find a wide variety of resources for recruiting, preparing and retaining foster and adoptive parents, resources to assist in bringing children and families together, to assist in interjurisdictional placement and intercountry adoptions, openness, caring for the caregiver, and addressing secondary trauma for workers—all in the context of culturally competent practice.
- Culturally competent casework practice
- Recruiting and retaining parents
- Preparing adoptive families
- Preparing children and youth for permanency
- Bringing children and families together
- Working With expectant parents and birth families
- Interjurisdictional placement
- Openness
- Caring for the caregiver, addressing secondary trauma for workers
- Intercountry adoption
- Social media in adoption recruitment
Spotlight On
| The Basics of Adoption Practice | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 307KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2006 - 13 pages |
| Adoption is a highly specialized field that focuses on placing children with families and providing services to ensure that these placements are permanent. In recent decades, the emphasis of adoption practice has shifted from helping families find children to finding safe and permanent families for children. Adoption workers are now expected to have extensive knowledge and understanding of the recruitment and assessment of adoptive families, the placement of children with a variety of strengths and needs, and supportive postadoption services to promote attachment and permanency for children. This bulletin provides an overview of the basics of adoption practice and the ... | |