AdoptUSKids for professionals

Screening resource families in to a role where they can succeed

As a participant in the AdoptUSKids Minority Professional Leadership Development program, April Ludwig improved her agency’s recruitment and retention strategies.

Addressing grief and loss in family support efforts

WEBINAR

Presenters share tools and strategies to increase staff knowledge about grief and loss and examples of programs that are addressing these issues in services for resource families.

How tribal values and traditions can guide recruitment, development, and support of resource families

TIP SHEET

AdoptUSKids worked with tribal consultants to provide this information to help you,
as a tribal child welfare administrator, ground resource family support efforts in tribal
culture and have tribal values, language, traditions, and teachings guide your work with
resource families.

Fostering ties between resource and birth families in tribal child welfare practice

TIP SHEET

This tip sheet, created in partnership with tribal consultants, offers tribal child welfare administrators tips for supporting resource families who are acting as extended family.

Congratulations to the 2020 MPLD fellows!

February 10, 2021

The January online celebration was the culmination of the 12-month program, which promotes professional leadership development of minorities in the adoption field.

Family First Act supplement to our Diligent Recruitment Navigator

TOOL

This tool is designed to be used with our customizable Diligent Recruitment Navigator to help you integrate relevant elements of the Act into your diligent recruitment program.

Addressing disparity and disproportionality in Georgia

January 11, 2021

As part of the AdoptUSKids MPLD program, a state adoption director researched why there are more Black children in foster care, proportional to their percentage of the population, and why they stay in care longer.