Strategies to shape your system to best use child-specific recruitment by creating effective, strengths-based profiles.
Strategies for caregivers to support and affirm LGBTQ+ youth in foster care.
Best practices for collecting and using comprehensive demographic data.
Strategies for family search and engagement aimed at locating relatives and fictive kin for children in out-of-home care.
Tips for child welfare workers to balance the benefits and risks of social media.
What to include and avoid in children’s narratives, plus suggested interview questions, writing tips, and sample narratives.
This research underscores the need to create a consistent method for defining, identifying, and monitoring children with complex medical needs.
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.
View visual data on racial and ethnic disparities within the US child welfare system, specifically focusing on foster care placements.
Learn about the ways family support can enhance your diligent recruitment efforts. Develop your customer service model to improve retention and outcomes for children and youth in foster care.
Beginning your diligent recruitment plan can seem overwhelming. Here are six tips to get you started.
Explore why diligent recruitment is an invaluable practice for systems-change in child welfare.
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.