Social Media: Tips for child welfare workers
Social Media: Tips for child welfare workers
Tips for child welfare workers to balance the benefits and risks of social media.
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Do gaps in data negatively impact children with complex medical needs?
Do gaps in data negatively impact children with complex medical needs?
This research underscores the need to create a consistent method for defining, identifying, and monitoring children with complex medical needs.
What are some strategies that prioritize first placement of children with a family?
What are some strategies that prioritize first placement of children with a family?
Learn about the importance of placing children in foster care with family members or close kin as their first placement.
Maryland modernizes kinship law to find families for more youth in foster care
Maryland modernizes kinship law to find families for more youth in foster care
Learn how new kinship care laws help to better identify and place foster youth with relatives or close family friends.
State-level data for understanding child welfare in the United States
State-level data for understanding child welfare in the United States
Comprehensive state-level data on child welfare in the United States.
Six tips for developing your diligent recruitment plan
Six tips for developing your diligent recruitment plan
Beginning your diligent recruitment plan can seem overwhelming. Here are six tips to get you started.
Supporting unlicensed kinship caregivers (Part two of Family ties: Analysis from a state-by-state survey of kinship care policies)
Supporting unlicensed kinship caregivers (Part two of Family ties: Analysis from a state-by-state survey of kinship care policies)
Learn more about how to better support unlicensed kinship caregivers.
Family ties: Analysis from a state-by-state survey of kinship care policies
Family ties: Analysis from a state-by-state survey of kinship care policies
Find terminology, key survey findings, and recommendations for better supporting and removing barriers for kinship caregivers.
Workers: Help recruit speakers bureau members
Workers: Help recruit speakers bureau members
Personal stories can make potential adoptive parents think, “I could do this!”
Embedding support in all you do: 5 ways tribes can support resource families from first engagement
Embedding support in all you do: 5 ways tribes can support resource families from first engagement
Learn how you as a worker in a tribal child welfare agency can support families at every stage.
Policy issues overview: Kinship services in tribal child welfare
Policy issues overview: Kinship services in tribal child welfare
Terminology, summaries, and practical recommendations for tribal child welfare programs wanting to engage kinship families.
National Adoption Month places emphasis on engaging youth
National Adoption Month places emphasis on engaging youth
Find resources for engaging older youth in their permanency planning.
Placement of children with relatives
Placement of children with relatives
This report outlines both the importance of placing children and youth with relatives and the various states’ statutes for doing so.
Why and how to support adoptive, foster, and kinship families
Why and how to support adoptive, foster, and kinship families
Giving families the support they need improves recruitment and retention efforts.
Understanding, engaging, and supporting Native families
Understanding, engaging, and supporting Native families
An introduction to tribes, citizenship, and connection, plus strategies to support and engage families.
Data-driven diligent recruitment: Using data to recruit and sustain families
Data-driven diligent recruitment: Using data to recruit and sustain families
Learn new approaches for creating a comprehensive diligent recruitment program with an emphasis on using data to inform your process.
Why should leaders assess their family support services?
Why should leaders assess their family support services?
Two public agency leaders describe assessing post-adoption support services.
Screening resource families in to a role where they can succeed
Screening resource families in to a role where they can succeed
Hear from April Ludwig about the action research project she completed as part of the AdoptUSKids Professional Leadership Development program.
What are some strategies for finding and keeping traditional and therapeutic resource families?
What are some strategies for finding and keeping traditional and therapeutic resource families?
Browse a list of detailed strategies for bolstering your recruitment and retention plans.
Using family-finding models to achieve permanency (part 2)
Using family-finding models to achieve permanency (part 2)
Presenters provide details on three models to family finding and engagement that AdoptUSKids helped jurisdictions replicate.