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Today
Set a time each week to discuss case file mining procedures and approaches. See examples from AdoptUSKids.
This Week
Explore the value of doing good child assessment and preparation. Download the Child/Youth Assessment and Preparation module from the NRC for Adoption website.
This Month
Get creative! Show clips from the AdoptUSKids' DVD The Road to Adoption and Foster Care at staff meetings. Talk about how your agency can improve permanency efforts. Order a copy from AdoptUSKids.
Proactively Find Families
Taking proactive steps to find families for children who wait is one way workers can create more and better opportunities for permanency for children. Find resources and tools in this section to assist in proactive family recruitment, including State and local examples.
Spotlight On
Recruitment Resources: Finding
Families for Waiting Children
Dosh & Ledesma
Judges' Page, 2010
Youth Permanency Cluster Grantee Projects
National Resource Center for Adoption
2003 Adoptive Placements for Children in Foster Care Grantee Cluster: Synthesis of Evaluation Findings
Children's Bureau (2010)
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Adoption Chronicles
Keen Innovations
Child-and Youth-Specific Recruitment
AdoptUSKids
Family Search and Engagement
National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections
Improving Recruitment
Outcomes: 11 Things a Practitioner Can Do (PDF - 580 KB)
National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUsKids
Innovative Practice Approaches to Matching in Adoption
Hanna & McRoy
Journal of Public Child Welfare, 5(1), 2011
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Resources for Agencies Trained on the Family Finding Model
National Institute for Permanent Family Connectedness
State and local examples
Adoption Match Parties (PDF - 724 KB)
Michigan Adoption Resource Exchange
Recruitment News, Winter 2009
All Things Are Possible: No Limits Adoption Recruitment for African American Children
Florida Department of Children and Families, Office of Family Safety (2010)
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Child-Specific Media Campaigns
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange
Cold Case Project
Supreme Court of Georgia, Committee on Justice for Children
Extreme Recruitment
Missouri Department of Social Services
Innovative Recruitment Strategies:
The Latino Family Institute
Children's Bureau Express, 9(6), 2008
Rural Targeted Community Outreach: Final Consolidated Project and Evaluation Reports
Northeast Ohio Adoption Services (2009)
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