Learn how to write compelling and respectful narratives for children in the adoption process.
Strategies to shape your system to best use child-specific recruitment by creating effective, strengths-based profiles.
What to include and avoid in children’s narratives, plus suggested interview questions, writing tips, and sample narratives.
How you can partner with International Social Service to connect family members separated by international borders.
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.
Learn new approaches for creating a comprehensive diligent recruitment program with an emphasis on using data to inform your process.
Use this tool to assess your support services for unconscious bias.
The advantages of engaging and recruiting LGBTQ+ families, plus terminology and how to create an affirming agency.
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.
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.
A foster care supervisor in Nevada shares how partnerships help their county recruit foster families and match teens with mentors.
Hear one MPLD fellow share how her participation in the program helped her lead systems-change efforts at her organization in Florida.
Hear from Marisele Esperance about how her participation in the MPLD program helped her efforts to recruit more families of color in her region.
What child-specific recruitment entails, and why you should be doing it.
Case studies, tools, and capacity-building resources for making interjurisdictional placements.
This tip sheet describes why you should offer support programs and successful strategies for implementing them.
Six strategies for developing a comprehensive program for recruiting and retaining foster parents.