How to incorporate those with lived experience into your support programs, including by prioritizing peer support and peer leadership.

In this webinar for child welfare professionals, presenters share strategies to make support services for families more trauma-responsive.

Discover how to incorporate and elevate people with lived experience. You’ll learn about barriers, how to assess readiness, and strategies.

Learn new approaches for creating a comprehensive diligent recruitment program with an emphasis on using data to inform your process.

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.

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.

Browse a list of detailed strategies for bolstering your recruitment and retention plans.

Real-life examples representing a spectrum of strategies available for developing plans to recruit and retain resource families.

Presenters provide details on three models to family finding and engagement that AdoptUSKids helped jurisdictions replicate.

Presenters share highlights of AdoptUSKids’ recent work supporting replication of family-finding models in multiple child welfare systems.

Presenters share strategies to help you increase your capacity to write strengths-based narratives, manage child-specific inquiries, and gain narrative approvals.

Ground resource family support efforts in tribal culture. Plus, learn how to allow tribal values, language, traditions, and teachings guide your work with resource families.

Hear program evaluation techniques and strategies to help you get what you need from your evaluation efforts.

How grief and loss affect resource families and ways to support families.

Use this analysis to improve diligent recruitment plans and increase the pool of diverse foster and adoptive families.

Increase the number of resource families by combining data with effective engagement strategies.

A foster care supervisor in Nevada shares how partnerships help their county recruit foster families and match teens with mentors.

Hear from Thomas Threlkeld on “Trauma 101” training for people working with children in foster care.