Photolisting and inquiry response systems best practices
Presenters share strategies to help you increase your capacity to write strengths-based narratives, manage child-specific inquiries, and gain narrative approvals.
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)
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
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)
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.
2020 MPLD fellows share research projects with leaders in Washington, DC
Graduates of the 2020 MPLD program at AdoptUSKids networked, celebrated, and discussed their work during a June poster session.
“Adoption Call to Action”: new strategies to achieve timely permanency
The Children’s Bureau is challenging child welfare systems to reduce the number of children waiting to be adopted in the US.