Using family-finding models to achieve permanency (part 2)
Presenters provide details on three models to family finding and engagement that AdoptUSKids helped jurisdictions replicate.
Recruit families
Using family-finding models to achieve permanency (part 1)
In this 90-minute webinar, presenters share highlights of AdoptUSKids’ recent work supporting replication of family-finding models in multiple child welfare systems across the country.
“Adoption Call to Action”: new strategies to achieve timely permanency
The Children’s Bureau is challenging child welfare systems to reduce the number of children waiting to be adopted in the US.
I Belong Project gives children a face and a voice
This America’s Kids Belong program is creating recruitment videos for children who are legally free for adoption in 11 states.
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.
Screening resource families in to a role where they can succeed
As a participant in the APLD program, April Ludwig improved her agency’s recruitment and retention strategies.