An administrator’s guide to creating strengths-based profiles for children and youth

This guide, for child welfare administrators, provides strategies to shape your system to best use child-specific recruitment by creating effective, strengths-based profiles for children awaiting adoption. It emphasizes highlighting children’s positive attributes and potential, rather than their challenges. The guide covers best practices for policies, training, evaluation, and staffing. It also offers methods for gathering and presenting information that showcases children’s strengths, thereby improving outcomes.