Recruitment alone isn’t enough April 29, 2022 by AdoptUSKids · Published April 29, 2022 · Last modified May 5, 2022 Learn why culturally competent engagement and support is key to sustaining a pool of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx foster and adoptive families.
How to support foster, adoptive, and kinship families of color WEBINAR by AdoptUSKids · Published February 17, 2022 · Last modified April 18, 2022 In this webinar, presenters explain why Black and Brown families need unique support from the child welfare system and highlight key strategies for supporting them.
Successfully recruiting and supporting African American families January 5, 2022 by AdoptUSKids · Published January 5, 2022 · Last modified April 18, 2022 “There’s been a shift from screening families out to screening them in…we started looking at what families can do, and working to remove barriers that were preventing people from fostering and adopting.”
“All’s well that begins well” November 23, 2021 by AdoptUSKids · Published November 23, 2021 · Last modified December 1, 2021 “As a child welfare professional, I believe that it is my role and responsibility to lift youth’s voices in their permanency planning so that other children do not silently move through life the way that I did as a teenager.”
Congratulations to the latest MPLD graduates! September 28, 2021 by AdoptUSKids · Published September 28, 2021 · Last modified November 12, 2021 In September, the third cohort of the AdoptUSKids Minority Professional Leadership Development (MPLD) program graduated in a three-day online ceremony.
Keeping kids connected to their culture through kinship placements August 10, 2021 by AdoptUSKids · Published August 10, 2021 · Last modified September 29, 2021 Through his action research project, MPLD fellow Gilbert Soto identified barriers to kinship placements and helped to increase those placements in New Jersey.