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Today
Review the photos on your agency's website and in outreach material. Do they reflect the diversity of families the agency is hoping to recruit?
This Week
Have staff complete a cultural competence self-assessment tool and implement ways to strengthen cultural competency. Find an example (PDF - 227 KB) at AdoptUSKids. Brainstorm ways to partner with the community.
This Month
Find organizations and identify resources that provide information about working with diverse communities. Partner with them to help in recruitment.
Work With Diverse Populations
Agencies are mandated to recruit adoptive parents from communities with members of the race and ethnicity of children in foster care waiting for families. Find resources in this section that support adoption professionals in their work with diverse populations, including State and local examples.
Spotlight On
Moving
Toward Cultural Competence: Key Considerations to Explore (PDF - 604 KB)
National Resource Center for Recruitment and Retention of Foster and Adoptive Parents at AdoptUSKids (2011)
Engaging African American Communities and Organizations to Support Foster
Care and Adoption for Children in the Child Welfare System (PDF - 4854 KB)
National Resource Center for Adoption
The Roundtable, 25(1), 2011
LGBT Adoptive and Foster Parenting (PDF - 185 KB)
National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections at AdoptUSKids
Serdjenian (2010)
Multiethnic Placement Act Curriculum (PDF - 1556 KB)
National Resource Center for Adoption
Minority Adoption Leadership Development Institute (MALDI)
National Resource Center for Adoption
Nuestra Familia, Nuestra Cultura (Our Family, Our Culture):
Promoting & Supporting Latino Families in Adoption and Foster Care (PDF - 1741 KB)
AdoptUSKids (2008)
Resources for Working With Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Foster and Adoptive Families
AdoptUSKids
Tribal Foster Care and Adoption Issues [Webcast]
National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections (2009)
Working With African
American Adoptive, Foster and Kinship Families (PDF - 1167 KB)
AdoptUSKids (2008)
Working With LGBT Families in Adoption (PDF - 315 KB)
Child Welfare Information Gateway (2011)
Working With Military Families
Child Welfare Information Gateway
State and local examples
City and County of Denver (CO), Department of Human
Services—Denver's Village
Diligent Recruitment grantee
Ramsey County (MN) Community Human Services
Department—Permanent Families Recruitment Project
Diligent Recruitment grantee
Site Visit: Child-Specific Recruitment for African-American Children
Children's Bureau Express, 11(4), 2010