Treat Them Like GOLD: A Best Practices Guide to Partnering with Resource Families
MN ASAP Packet for Adoptive Parents of Waiting Children
Listening to Parents: Overcoming Barriers to the Adoption of Children from Foster Care
Analysis, data and recommendations for more successfully engaging prospective adoptive parents in the process and realizing an increase in foster care adoptions.
ADOPTIVE PARENT PREPARATION PROJECT Phase I: Meeting the Mental Health and Developmental Needs Of Adopted Children
A policy and practice overview for professionals and parents alike; includes recommended key program elements and reading and training recommendations for adoptive parents.
AdoptUsKids "Answering the Call"
“Answering the Call” guides provide a wealth of information about recruitment and retention of foster and adoptive parents, parent support, working with specialized communities (Latino, Military, communities of faith), and a guide to photolisting. Also Barriers and Success Factors, a study commissioned by the U.S. Congress via the Children’s Bureau. This study discusses factors that are supportive of prospective foster and adoptive parents in getting through the training, approval and placement processes
AdoptUsKids Resources for Working with African American Families
A simplified guide for working with African American families from recruitment to placement and finalization.
LGBT Foster and Adoptive Parenting Information Packet
This new National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections information packet, authored by Teija Sudol, provides information on Foster and Adoptive Parenting by LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) individuals and families. It includes a summary of issues, and reviews facts and statistics, policy and legislation, and best practices and promising approaches to work with LGBT foster and adoptive parents. It also includes a listing of online resources. (October 2010)
Practice Principles for the Recruitment and Retention of Kinship, Foster and Adoptive Families for Siblings
Effective recruitment of families for siblings is driven and supported by an attitude of abundance regarding the availability of families to keep siblings together. This includes having a belief that kinship, foster and adoptive families are willing to step forward to assist the agency in keeping siblings together. This resource offers principles -- which grow out of, and align with, these attitudes -- to frame an agency's recruitment and retention practices related to siblings. This resource is by AdoptUSKids, and is funded through a Cooperative Agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children’s Bureau. (2010)
Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition: Extreme Recruitment™ Toolbox
Visit the Foster and Adoptive Care Coalition’s website to learn about their “Extreme Recruitment™” approach to matching youth with adoptive families and to access their Extreme Recruitment Toolbox. The Extreme Recruitment™ Toolbox includes a variety of resources, including a Manual, Timeline, Top Ten List, Genogram Example, Roadmap to Permanency, Weekly Action Plan, and many other helpful documents.
Organizations
AdoptOntario
A program of the Adoption Council of Ontario, AdoptOntario is a photolisting website of children awaiting adoption. It connects these children with Ontario families.
AdoptUsKids
