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Foster Parenting: Resources for Child Welfare Administrators and Supervisors

The Child and Family Services Reviews have identified that many States are challenged by the need for sufficient numbers and types of placement options to ensure that a child's foster care placement is based on appropriateness rather than availability. Foster parent recruitment and retention is an important issue for child welfare administrators and supervisors, because it directly impacts permanency outcomes for children in foster care.

Information Gateway website sections that provide information and resources about:

• Strategies for recruiting and retaining foster parents
• CFSR information related to foster parenting

Strategies for recruiting and retaining foster parents

Out-of-Home Care

• Recruiting foster parents
• Recruiting foster/adoptive parents
• Supporting and retaining foster families
• Related resources: Foster parents
• Cultural competence in working with resource families
• Identifying and locating relatives
• Placement stability

Family-Centered Practice

• Family-centered, neighborhood-based foster care

Achieving and Maintaining Permanency

• Recruiting, preparing, & retaining foster/adoptive parents
• Permanent placements with relatives

Systemwide

• How to develop a respite care program
• State and local examples: Respite services for resource families
• Training for foster, adoptive, and kinship families
• Training for caseworkers: Out-of-home care

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CFSR information related to foster parenting

Systemwide

• Improving outcomes for children and families

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Updated on December 12, 2008