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.
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.
Learn about the ways data can support your diligent recruitment efforts. Gain strategies for using data to monitor and improve outcomes for children and youth in foster care.
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.
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.
More than a dozen ways to recruit, develop, and support potential foster and adoptive families from a former case manager and MPLD graduate.
What one agency did to remove barriers that prevented African Americans from fostering and adopting.
An introduction to tribes, citizenship, and connection, plus strategies to support and engage families.
Key considerations for recruiting families and the role diligent recruitment plays in child welfare.