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.
Learn about the unique challenges LGBTQ families face and the strengths they bring.
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.
Conceptos clave para involucrar a los jóvenes en su reclutamiento.
Learn new approaches for creating a comprehensive diligent recruitment program with an emphasis on using data to inform your process.
Learn key strategies for supporting Black and Brown families.
Discover how to incorporate and elevate people with lived experience. You’ll learn about barriers, how to assess readiness, and strategies.
In this webinar for child welfare professionals, presenters share strategies to make support services for families more trauma-responsive.
How to incorporate those with lived experience into your support programs, including by prioritizing peer support and peer leadership.
Key considerations for recruiting families of color. Plus, the role diligent recruitment plays in supporting racial equity in child welfare systems.
An introduction to tribes, citizenship, and connection, plus strategies to support and engage families.
Learn more about kinship navigator programs and their potential impact on improving outcomes for kinship caregivers.
Hear how MPLD fellow Gilbert Soto identified barriers to kinship placements in New Jersey.
This article and checklist offer practical approaches for increasing the retention and approval of African American resource families.
The advantages of engaging and recruiting LGBTQ+ families, plus terminology and how to create an affirming agency.
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 MPLD program.
Real-life examples representing a spectrum of strategies available for developing plans to recruit and retain resource families.