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National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUsKids
Who We Are
As part of The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids, a federally funded project operated by the Adoption Exchange Association, the National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUsKids (NRCRRFAP) provides training and technical assistance to States and Tribes on issues pertaining to the development and implementation of high quality services to recruit and retain foster, adoptive, concurrent, and kinship families,
How We Can Help
The NRCRRFAP provides training and technical assistance (T&TA) to help States and Tribes with issues related to the recruitment and retention of foster and adoptive families, including topical areas related to customer service, diligent recruitment, interjurisdictional placement, special T&TA projects, Train-the-Trainer, and IV-B plan (CFSP) recruitment and retention. The NRCRRFAP can provide assistance with all phases of States’ CFSRs, PIPs, 5-year Child and Family Services Plans (CFSPs), and Annual Progress and Services Reports.
Training and Technical Assistance
The NRCRRFAP’s service goals are to:
- Help States and Tribes develop a pool of waiting families who reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of children for whom foster and adoptive homes are needed
- Increase the effective use of cross-jurisdictional resources to facilitate timely adoptive or permanent placements for waiting children
- Promote and enhance the role of foster and adoptive parents in recruitment and planning
- Assist States and Tribes in ensuring their recruitment and response processes are driven by practices whose effectiveness has been demonstrated and based on relevant data
- Provide a forum for facilitated peer-to-peer networking, consultation, and technical assistance
Support for the CFSR Process
The NRCRRFAP supports States in the CFSR process by:
- Providing individualized assessments of recruitment and retention needs and interjurisdictional placement practices
- Exploring and disseminating information about established, effective recruitment activities and initiatives
- Offering access to a team of national experts for consultation and training on recruitment, retention, and interjurisdictional issues and strategy development
- Producing training manuals and tools for child welfare professionals and prospective families on best practices in recruitment and retention of families, writing profiles on waiting children, matching waiting children with families, working with military families, engaging community partners, and implementing targeted recruitment approaches
Training and Consultation to Support Agencies and Build Internal Capacity
Current areas of expertise include:
- Recruiting foster and adoptive families (general, targeted, child-specific, and child-centered)
- Placing children interjurisdictionally
- Using the national online photolisting for waiting children
- Writing profiles on waiting children
- Developing and sustaining community-based partnerships
- Developing strategic planning and consultation related to the development of title IV-B recruitment plans
- Responding effectively and supportively to inquiring families
- Using the national photolisting service for available families
- Using the national recruitment campaign materials as part of States’ recruitment strategies
Website and Photolisting
The partnership also maintains the AdoptUsKids website. The website is the first Federal online photolisting service featuring children waiting to be adopted from foster care.
Additional Components of the NRCRRFAP
The NRCRRFAP supports a variety outreach and other activities.
- Establishing joint trainings and national meetings with child welfare administrators, adoption and foster care managers, and other child welfare professionals from the public and private sectors
- Developing and supporting a network of adoptive parent organizations
- Planning, carrying out, and assisting the States and Tribes in providing fulfillment for the national multimedia campaign to recruit adoptive and foster families for waiting children
- Implementing and supporting recruitment response teams to assist States in responding to national, State, and local recruitment campaigns and to support and nurture interested families
For More Information
Address: |
8015 Corporate Drive, Suite C
Baltimore, MD 21236 |
Phone: |
888.200.4005 or 410.933.5700 |
Fax: |
410.933.5716 |
Email: |
info@adoptuskids.org |
Website: |
http://www.adoptuskids.org |
Contact: |
Kathy Ledesma, M.S.W., Project Director
503.803.9202
Sharri Black, T&TA
785.232.8070 |
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