National Adoption Month: engaging with youth
Young adults and professionals discuss the importance of involving youth in permanency planning and share resources that can support your efforts to achieve adoption for older youth.
Recruit families
Using a speakers bureau for recruitment
Suggestions for using a speakers bureau to promote positive stories and increase awareness of foster care and adoption—including among members of the media.
Integrating family support from inquiry throughout placement
Tips for implementing support at each stage of the foster, adoptive, or kinship process.
Characteristics of successful recruitment practitioners: a checklist
A tool to help you understand the qualities of effective recruiters.
Preparing for inquiries generated by Instant Family
A 2018 tip sheet offering tips to help programs prepare for possible increases in the number of families inquiring after watching the movie Instant Family.
Developing and supporting prospective families
Explores strategies, program models, and key considerations.