AdoptUSKids for professionals

Supporting the identity of children adopted transracially

A graduate of the AdoptUSKids Minority Professional Leadership Development program talks about the training she developed to help families and workers understand and address issues related to transracial adoption.

AdoptUSKids recruiting new speakers bureau members!

March 3, 2021

Do you know a family who would be interested in joining our speakers bureau? We’re especially looking for families who adopted teens and alum who were adopted as teens.

Screening resource families in to a role where they can succeed

February 25, 2021

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.