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Going beyond recruitment for older youth

This guide provides tools to help build your system’s capacity to respond to prospective parents and prepare older youth for adoption. It includes resources and guidance to share with families and strategies for engaging youth and helping them be open to adoption.

Author: National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment (NRCDR) at AdoptUSKids

Published: 2015

Last revised: 2017

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Going Beyond Recruitment for Older Youth: Increasing Your System’s Capacity to Respond to Prospective Parents and Prepare Older Youth for Adoption (743 KB PDF)

AdoptUSKids

AdoptUSKids

AdoptUSKids authors include experts in child welfare, communications, evaluation, and/or technology from across the United States. Together, they drive the AdoptUSKids project, as it supports foster and adoptive families, raises awareness about the nationwide need for more of these families, and provides resources to child welfare systems and professionals.

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