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Answering the Call - AdoptUsKids Publications
To assist States and Tribes in recruiting foster and adoptive families for children in foster care, The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids has developed a number of recruitment resources. These tools encourage good practice regarding recruitment, see below for a complete listing. For ordering information, download the order form or simply click on the appropriate link below for a PDF version of these publications.
Barriers & Success Factors in Adoption from Foster Care: Perspectives of Families & Staff: This report presents the findings of two research studies conducted by Dr. Ruth McRoy's research team at the University of Texas at Austin Center for Social Work Research. These studies were longitudinal and spanned the first five years of the AdoptUsKids project (2002-2007). Findings from the two studies focused on:
1. barriers experienced by a nationwide group of families seeking to adopt children from the U.S. foster care system and
2. factors which contribute to successful adoption outcomes for families adopting children from foster care.
Dollars and Sense: A Guide to Achieving Adoptions Through Public-Private Contracting: Designed to provide public and private agency program manager, supervisors, and contract managers with information to facilitate the purchase of interjurisdictional adoption services.
Family Pocket Guide: Designed for prospective parents to help them understand and follow their individual journey throughout the process. Spanish and English versions available. English | Spanish
Finding Common Ground: A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies Working with Communities of Faith: to help managers respond to national recruitment campaign and as a guide in developing their Child and Family Service Plans and Program Improvement Plans.
ICPC Receiving and Sending State Checklists :To serve as an overview and generalized description of how ICPC might operate for children and youth being placed across State lines with recruited, general applicant families for the purpose of adoption.
Receiving | Sending
Improving Adoption Practices: Parent & Caseworkers Talk about Barriers and Success Factors in Adoption and Foster Care (video)
Lasting Impressions: A Guide for Photolisting Children
Practitioners Guide: Getting More Parents fro Children from Your Recruitment Efforts: to help recruiters and agency staff to retain more parents from their recruitment efforts.
Recruitment Work Plan for Adoption & Foster Care Program Managers (Only available on CD-rom): to help managers respond to national recruitment campaign and as a guide in developing their Child and Family Service Plans and Program Improvement Plans.
• Developing a Recruitment Work Plan (booklet insert)
• Assessment Tool for Recuitment Programs (booklet insert)
• Toolkit (booklet insert)
The Road to Adoption and Foster Care (DVD)
Wherever My Family Is: That's Home - Adoption Services for Military Families: provides a roadmap to help caseworker make quality and timely adoption services readily available for military families.
Did you know? All our AdoptUsKids PSAs are available on line: to access, go to: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=adoptuskids&docid=6423873395270879236&num=10&so=0&start=20
