Hear one MPLD fellow share how her participation in the program helped her lead systems-change efforts at her organization in Florida.
What child-specific recruitment entails, and why you should be doing it.
Presenters provide concrete strategies to connect post-placement support to recruitment strategies and activities.
Project Revive helped foster parents in New Mexico recognize the grief encountered while involved with the foster care system.
This tip sheet describes why you should offer support programs and successful strategies for implementing them.
Empower foster parents to play an active role in helping achieve permanency for children and youth in foster care.
Presenters share strategies to help you engage youth in creating effective, strengths-based profiles.
Case studies, tools, and capacity-building resources for making interjurisdictional placements.
Why you should engage youth and how to create your own plan for building meaningful youth-adult partnerships.
Practical strategies for recruiting, retaining, and supporting families who reflect the children they serve.
Six strategies for developing a comprehensive program for recruiting and retaining foster parents.
Eight ideas for keeping parents engaged as they wait for a placement.
Practical tips for implementing different types of peer support within tribal communities.
Guide and tools to help you incorporate customer service principles and practices in your work.
Strategies, tips, and ideas from the field to help you support foster parents as they work toward reunification and feel supported after children return home.
Common approaches and tools for evaluation and reasons to evaluate your family support program
Presenters discuss the forms peer support can take and strategies for incorporating it.
Learn strategies to support foster parents to encourage reunification as a permanency goal for the children in their care.
Connecting CFSR items to family support program components.
Twelve categories of support for children and youth and examples of successful programs.