Recruitment alone isn’t enough
Learn why culturally competent engagement and support is key to sustaining a pool of Black, Indigenous, and Latinx foster and adoptive families.
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How to support foster, adoptive, and kinship families of color
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
“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”
“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 our fourth leadership program cohort!
16 MPLD fellows will learn about transformational leadership, take a closer look at disproportionality in child welfare, and complete an action research project that addresses a challenge in their local child welfare system.
Congratulations to the latest MPLD graduates!
In September, the third cohort of the AdoptUSKids MPLD program graduated in a three-day online ceremony.