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Recruiting, Preparing, & Retaining Foster/Adoptive Parents
Strategies, tools, and organizations to help professionals identify, recruit, prepare, and retain resource families (foster, adoptive, and kinship families) for children waiting for adoptive families. Resources include State and local examples.
Adoption Incentive Awards for FY 2007
Children’s Bureau
Lists States that received Adoption Incentive Awards for the Fiscal Year 2006 earning period. Adoption Incentive Awards are given to States that were successful in increasing the number of adoptions from the public child welfare system above a baseline number of adoptions - particularly children over age 9 or children with special needs (as defined by the State). For more information on adoption incentives see http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/laws_policies/policy/im/2004/im0404.htm.
African American Adoptions
McRoy (2004)
In Child Welfare Revisited: An Africentric Perspective
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Examines important issues in African American adoption practice and offers suggestions, using an Africentric perspective for improving services delivery outcomes. Includes strategies for recruitment and retention of African American adoptive families.
Finding a Fit that Will Last a Lifetime: A Guide to Connecting Adoptive Families With Waiting Children (PDF - 374 KB)
AdoptUsKids
Designed to assist caseworkers with the assessment, decisionmaking, and matching process.
Foster and Adoptive Parent Licensing, Recruitment, and Retention
Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Highlights promising approaches used by States to license, recruit, and retain resource families.
Foster Parent Adoption
This paper discusses issues related to the increasing importance of foster parents as permanency resources for children in foster care. In order to facilitate adoptions by foster parents, professionals should be knowledgeable about the benefits, costs, and practice issues surrounding foster parent adoption. Practice issues include assessment, adoption preparation and postadoption support, and facilitating ongoing connections with birth families.
Promising Approaches and Resources
AdoptUsKids
Emerging ideas and promising approaches related to the following recruitment topics: diligent, targeted, faith-based, older youth/teen, interjurisdictional, and child/youth-specific & centered. Includes information related to foster and adoptive family retention.
Recruiting and Retaining Resource Families: A Breakthrough Collaborative
Casey Family Programs (2005)
Public child welfare agencies and tribes that share a commitment to improving the way they recruit and retain resource families are brought together to share knowledge, challenges, and successes.
Recruitment and Retention of Resource Families
National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning
Resources to help professionals identify, recruit, and retain resource families (foster, adoptive, and kinship) for children waiting for families.
Recruitment and Retention of Resource Families: The Promise and the Paradox
Casey Family Programs (2002)
An overview of the messages and unique approaches of eight States with innovative and rigorous recruitment efforts.
Recruitment Work Plan for Adoption & Foster Care Program Managers (PDF - 1,736 KB)
AdoptUsKids (2004)
Guide to help managers respond to the national recruitment campaign and assist with developing State Child and Family Service Plans (CFSPs)and Program Improvement Plans (PIPs).
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State and local examples
Fulfilling the Dream: Finding Families for Waiting Minority Children
Adoption Center of Delaware Valley (2001)
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This project utilized an array of recruitment and retention strategies to attract prospective parents, including an adoption preparation course, public service announcements, an adoption fair, targeted neighborhood meetings, cultural sensitivity training for agency staff, and the reduction of barriers to prospective families.
Juntos Somos Familia = Together We Are Family: A Project to Increase Adoptive Placements of Hispanic Children
Weaver-Parker & Apodaca (2003)
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Final report of an Adoption Opportunities Grant received by The Adoption Exchange in Albuquerque, New Mexico to promote the adoption of Hispanic children who are older than 10 years or members of sibling groups.
Making the Family Connection: A Project to Retain and Support Minority Children in Adoptive Families: Final Project Report
The Adoption Exchange, Missouri Adoptcare Network (2003)
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This project used pre- and postadoption services and culturally appropriate parent recruitment strategies to improve permanency for minority children adopted from foster care.
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