Evaluating your family support services
Presenters share program evaluation techniques and strategies to help you get what you need from your evaluation efforts.
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.
Going to the extreme to find children’s families
With a combination of sleuthing, advocacy, and support, 80 percent of the children served by this program are matched with permanency resources, and 90 percent are connected with lifelong support.
Why should leaders assess their family support services?
Learn what two public agency leaders had to say about assessing their post-adoption support services.
Screening resource families in to a role where they can succeed
As a participant in the AdoptUSKids MPLD program, April Ludwig improved her agency’s recruitment and retention strategies.
Addressing grief and loss in family support efforts
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
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.