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Quality kinship, foster, and adoptive homes are crucial in achieving good outcomes for children and youth in care, but finding and keeping kinship, foster, and adoptive parents is an ongoing challenge.
This site is designed to help counties and agencies revitalize their recruitment and retention plan of action.
Taking Action
A blueprint for recruitment and retention of kinship, foster, and adoptive parents.
A hands-on, step-by-step guide for putting diligent recruitment into action, with tools and tips you can use along the way.
Revitalizing Recruitment
Practical strategies for finding and keeping kinship, foster, and adoptive homes.
A compendium of best practices, with real-life examples, resources, and practice models from New York and across the U.S.
Resources
A toolkit for recruitment and retention.
Guides and resources for assisting providers and parents with planning and implementing recruitment and retention programs.
This project is funded by the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under a Cooperative Agreement, Grant Number 90CO-1109. The contents of this publication are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Children’s Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services or the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.
