For Tamara Simmons, engaging fathers is critical
What would it look like if systems of care amplified our efforts in terms of engaging fathers? APLD graduate Tamara Simmons asks this and more.
Professional development
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.
Data-driven diligent recruitment: Using data to recruit and sustain families
Learn key concepts and new approaches for creating a comprehensive diligent recruitment program with an emphasis on ways to use data to inform your process.
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 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.