AdoptUSKids

AdoptUSKids authors include experts in child welfare, communications, evaluation, and/or technology from across the United States. Together, they drive the AdoptUSKids project, as it supports foster and adoptive families, raises awareness about the nationwide need for more of these families, and provides resources to child welfare systems and professionals.

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

August 25, 2021October 20, 2021
Child-specific recruitment, Family finding, Webinar

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

Keeping kids connected to their culture through kinship placements

August 10, 2021November 16, 2024
Article, Cultural competence, MPLD, Professional development

Through his action research project, MPLD fellow Gilbert Soto identified barriers to kinship placements and helped to increase those placements in New Jersey.

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

July 30, 2021October 20, 2021
Child-specific recruitment, Family finding, Webinar

In this 90-minute webinar, presenters share highlights of AdoptUSKids’ recent work supporting replication of family-finding models in multiple child welfare systems across the country.