Strengthening diligent recruitment to keep siblings together

Stronger together: Strengthening diligent recruitment to keep siblings together

This session highlights strategies and practices that promote keeping siblings together, ongoing connections, and reuniting separated siblings.

Learning objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• Explain how diligent recruitment practices can be used to intentionally recruit, support, and retain kinship, foster, and adoptive families who can keep siblings together.
• Integrate strategies into practice and policy to reduce barriers to sibling placements.
• Describe practice implications for maintaining meaningful sibling connections for siblings who are not placed together.
• Identify practices and policies that support ongoing efforts to reunite siblings that have been separated.
• Apply insight from lived experience and jurisdictional examples to identify practices and strategies to strengthen efforts to keep siblings together.

Presenters

Katie Amelse, LMSW
National Child Welfare Advisor
National Center for Diligent Recruitment

Emma Fischer
Speaker
AdoptUSKids Speakers Bureau