Incorporating those with lived experience into your support services for adoptive, foster, and kinship families

Incorporating those with lived experience into your support services for adoptive, foster, and kinship families

Discover how to incorporate and elevate people with lived experience. You’ll learn about barriers, how to assess readiness, and strategies.

Keeping foster and adoptive parents engaged before placement

Keeping foster and adoptive parents engaged before placement

Eight ideas for keeping parents engaged as they wait for a placement.

Moving beyond trauma-informed to trauma-responsive support for families

Moving beyond trauma-informed to trauma-responsive support for families

In this webinar for child welfare professionals, presenters share strategies to make support services for families more trauma-responsive.

NAYA builds cultural connections for tribal families

NAYA builds cultural connections for tribal families

Learn how the Native American Youth and Family Center (NAYA) has built cultural connections for tribal families in Oregon.

Offering family support programs to help recruitment goals

Offering family support programs to help recruitment goals

This tip sheet describes why you should offer support programs and successful strategies for implementing them.

Peer support matters: Strategies to incorporate and elevate those with lived experience

Peer support matters: Strategies to incorporate and elevate those with lived experience

How to incorporate those with lived experience into your support programs, including by prioritizing peer support and peer leadership.

Peer support strategies for families in tribal communities

Peer support strategies for families in tribal communities

Presenters discuss the forms peer support can take and strategies for incorporating it.

Photolisting and inquiry response systems best practices

Photolisting and inquiry response systems best practices

Presenters share strategies to help you increase your capacity to write strengths-based narratives, manage child-specific inquiries, and gain narrative approvals.

Project Revive: Helping foster parents process grief

Project Revive: Helping foster parents process grief

Project Revive helped foster parents in New Mexico recognize the grief encountered while involved with the foster care system.

Recruiting families for Native American children

Recruiting families for Native American children

Overview of relevant laws, best practices, tips, and considerations for recruiting families for Native American children in foster care.

Recruiting foster and adoptive families: Stories and strategies from leaders in child welfare

Recruiting foster and adoptive families: Stories and strategies from leaders in child welfare

Key considerations for recruiting families and the role diligent recruitment plays in child welfare.

Strengthening recruitment through family support

Strengthening recruitment through family support

Presenters provide concrete strategies to connect post-placement support to recruitment strategies and activities.

The interstate compact on adoption and medical assistance

The interstate compact on adoption and medical assistance

Basic information about interstate compacts and how they facilitate adoption assistance services.

Tool for assessing and improving family support services

Tool for assessing and improving family support services

Use this tool to plan and conduct a review of your support-service array and consider ways to strengthen your services.

Tribal supplement to the Diligent Recruitment Navigator

Tribal supplement to the Diligent Recruitment Navigator

This planning tool specifically for tribes provides additional discussion questions and people to include when using the Diligent Recruitment Navigator.

Understanding, engaging, and supporting Native families

Understanding, engaging, and supporting Native families

An introduction to tribes, citizenship, and connection, plus strategies to support and engage families.

Using family-finding models to achieve permanency (part 1)

Using family-finding models to achieve permanency (part 1)

Presenters share highlights of AdoptUSKids’ recent work supporting replication of family-finding models in multiple child welfare systems.

Using family-finding models to achieve permanency (part 2)

Using family-finding models to achieve permanency (part 2)

Presenters provide details on three models to family finding and engagement that AdoptUSKids helped jurisdictions replicate.

Working with African American families

Working with African American families

A brief guide to understanding and working with African American families.

Diligent recruitment planning

Diligent recruitment planning