Intentionality: It’s what foster parent recruitment and retention needs

Intentionality: It’s what foster parent recruitment and retention needs

More than a dozen ways to recruit, develop, and support potential foster and adoptive families from a former case manager and MPLD graduate.

Foster home estimator: Helping child welfare agencies plan for family recruitment

Foster home estimator: Helping child welfare agencies plan for family recruitment

Use this estimator tool to build a more robust pool of foster parents.

What are some strategies for finding and keeping traditional and therapeutic resource families?

What are some strategies for finding and keeping traditional and therapeutic resource families?

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

Strategies for successfully recruiting and retaining preferred-placement foster homes for American Indian children: Maintaining culture and compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act

Strategies for successfully recruiting and retaining preferred-placement foster homes for American Indian children: Maintaining culture and compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act

Strategies used by tribal and state teams working to increase the number of foster parents for Indigenous children.

Placement of children with relatives

Placement of children with relatives

This report outlines both the importance of placing children and youth with relatives and the various states’ statutes for doing so.

Policy issues overview: Kinship services in tribal child welfare

Policy issues overview: Kinship services in tribal child welfare

Terminology, summaries, and practical recommendations for tribal child welfare programs wanting to engage kinship families.

Child-specific recruitment 101

Child-specific recruitment 101

What child-specific recruitment entails, and why you should be doing it.

Embedding support in all you do: 5 ways tribes can support resource families from first engagement

Embedding support in all you do: 5 ways tribes can support resource families from first engagement

Learn how you as a worker in a tribal child welfare agency can support families at every stage.

Keeping kids connected to their culture through kinship placements

Keeping kids connected to their culture through kinship placements

Hear how MPLD fellow Gilbert Soto identified barriers to kinship placements in New Jersey.

Leading systems-change efforts in Florida

Leading systems-change efforts in Florida

Hear one MPLD fellow share how her participation in the program helped her lead systems-change efforts at her organization in Florida.

National Adoption Month places emphasis on engaging youth

National Adoption Month places emphasis on engaging youth

Find resources for engaging older youth in their permanency planning.

Partnering with organizations to recruit families

Partnering with organizations to recruit families

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

Screening resource families in to a role where they can succeed

Screening resource families in to a role where they can succeed

Hear from April Ludwig about the action research project she completed as part of the AdoptUSKids MPLD program.

Successfully recruiting and supporting African American families

Successfully recruiting and supporting African American families

What one agency did to remove barriers that prevented African Americans from fostering and adopting.

Understanding trauma: It’s personal

Understanding trauma: It’s personal

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

Why and how to support adoptive, foster, and kinship families

Why and how to support adoptive, foster, and kinship families

Giving families the support they need improves recruitment and retention efforts.

Why should leaders assess their family support services?

Why should leaders assess their family support services?

Two public agency leaders describe assessing post-adoption support services.

Workers: Help recruit speakers bureau members

Workers: Help recruit speakers bureau members

Personal stories can make potential adoptive parents think, “I could do this!”

Using data to improve the inquiry-to-licensing experience for families

Using data to improve the inquiry-to-licensing experience for families

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

Addressing grief and loss in family support efforts

Addressing grief and loss in family support efforts

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