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Recruiting foster parents to meet the needs of youth placed in care takes an enormous amount of effort. Some of the more challenging homes to find, such as those for teens and large sibling groups, can take a tremendous amount of time often with limited results. Below you will find helpful information to make your quest just a little easier. We have compiled some of the best resources on the areas mentioned, and on community engagement efforts and the retention of foster parents. We hope that you find these resources useful. Also, if you find a terrific resource that is not reflected here, please contact us so that we can add it!
Contents
Recruitment Tools and Resources
- National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment (NRCDR) Toolkit: Developing recruitment plans
- Family Intake Tracking Tool Factsheet
- Sample Inquiry to Certification Spreadsheet
- Foster Parents as Recruiters Step-by-Step Guide
- Sample Utilization Study
- Example 1: Foster and Adoptive Parent Survey
- Example 2: Foster and Adoptive Parent Survey–short sample
- Example 3: Foster Parent Survey
- Example 4: Survey of Former Foster Parents
- Action Plan Template
- Sample Foster Parent Paperwork Checklist
- Kinship Action Plan and 18 Month Update Foster/Adoptive Parent Recruitment and Retention Plan
Finding foster parents for teens
- Planing Questions: Finding foster parents for teens
- Recruiting for older youth
- Recruiting homes for teenagers and older youth
- Increasing your agency's capacity to respond to prospective parents and prepare older youth for adoption (pp.4 & 6)
- Using integrated recruitment and support to build a strong pool of foster, adoptive, and kinship families (pp. 2-3)
- Fostering perspectives newsletter, Nov. 2007, Vol.12, No. 1 (pp. 9-11)
Finding homes for sibling groups
- Planning-Questions: Finding homes for sibling groups
- Recruiting for sibling groups
- Sibling issues in foster care and adoption
- The sibling bond
- Camp-to-belong
Recruiting diverse homes through community engagement
- Planning Questions: Recruiting diverse homes through community engagement
- Partnerships with diverse communities
- Building community partnerships, step by step
- Finding common ground: A guide for child welfare agencies working with communities of faith
- One Church One Child
Foster parent retention
- Planning Questions: Foster parent retention
- Customer service for retention
- Guide to foster parents
- Treat them like gold
- Foster parent retention revisited
- Fostering Futures NY
Presentations
- Innovations in Family Recruitment: Innovations in Family Recruitment PDF | Innovations in Family Recruitment PowerPoint
- Fostering Futures NY: Fostering Futures NY PDF | Fostering Futures NY PowerPoint
References
- AdoptUSKids (adoptuskids.org)
- Child Welfare Information Gateway (childwelfare.gov)
- Fostering Perspectives (fosteringperspectives.org)
- The Annie E. Casey Foundation (aecf.org)
- Camp to Belong (camptobelong.org)
- Advokids (advokids.org)
- The Texas Adoption Resource Exchange (TARE)
- Wisconsin Child Welfare Professional Development System (wcwpds.wisc.edu)
- Foster Focus Magazine (fosterfocusmag.com)
- Youth Today (youthtoday.org)
- Santa Cruz California (foster care and adoption)
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.
