Learn about the importance of placing children in foster care with family members or close kin as their first placement.
Learn how new kinship care laws help to better identify and place foster youth with relatives or close family friends.
Comprehensive state-level data on child welfare in the United States.
Beginning your diligent recruitment plan can seem overwhelming. Here are six tips to get you started.
Learn more about how to better support unlicensed kinship caregivers.
Find terminology, key survey findings, and recommendations for better supporting and removing barriers for kinship caregivers.
Personal stories can make potential adoptive parents think, “I could do this!”
Learn how you as a worker in a tribal child welfare agency can support families at every stage.
Terminology, summaries, and practical recommendations for tribal child welfare programs wanting to engage kinship families.
Find resources for engaging older youth in their permanency planning.
This report outlines both the importance of placing children and youth with relatives and the various states’ statutes for doing so.
Giving families the support they need improves recruitment and retention efforts.
An introduction to tribes, citizenship, and connection, plus strategies to support and engage families.
Learn new approaches for creating a comprehensive diligent recruitment program with an emphasis on using data to inform your process.
Two public agency leaders describe assessing post-adoption support services.
Hear from April Ludwig about the action research project she completed as part of the AdoptUSKids Professional Leadership Development program.
Browse a list of detailed strategies for bolstering your recruitment and retention plans.
Presenters share highlights of AdoptUSKids’ recent work supporting replication of family-finding models in multiple child welfare systems.
Presenters provide details on three models to family finding and engagement that AdoptUSKids helped jurisdictions replicate.
Presenters share strategies to help you increase your capacity to write strengths-based narratives, manage child-specific inquiries, and gain narrative approvals.