Purpose: To fund comprehensive multifaceted diligent recruitment programs for a range
of resource families for children in foster care, including kinship, foster, concurrent, and adoptive families.
Resources for professionals working
with resource families (foster, adoptive, and kinship) to help prepare them for becoming adoptive parents, including State and local examples.
Find resources and information to overcome barriers and challenges faced by child welfare and adoption professionals when working to support, develop, and
retain resource families.
This could help prevent the need to place children in out - of - home care and also helps put families in a better position to
become resource families.
My duties include effectively manages programs and teams ensuring the program is meeting expected outcomes and review data accordingly; accomplished by placing therapeutic foster children in
resource family homes.
Training on how the child welfare system works
allows resource families to understand their role within the system and enables them to be more effective advocates for the children in their care.
After establishing each role within this framework, the resource details how implementing a customer service framework
affects resource family retention.
However, many county child welfare agencies are struggling to meet these goals due to a shortage of
available resource families, a group that includes both foster parents and kinship caregivers.
Specialists require an in - depth knowledge of the child welfare system and
resource family licensing to assist families through the process.
This factsheet includes the perspectives of a child, a biological family, and a
Bridge Resource Family who have experienced the program.
Facebook 101 for Child Welfare Professionals: An Introduction to Using Facebook to Reach Foster, Adoptive, and Kinship Families (PDF - 272 KB) AdoptUSKids (2014) Discusses ways in which a child welfare agency can use Facebook in order to connect with
prospective resource families, including sharing useful information, answering common questions, and spreading awareness about upcoming events.
Highlights promising practices around recruitment, including lessons learned from
recruiting resource families for Washington State's children in care.
«We believe to the core that we need to support training
resource families in a relevant, adequate way, and so if we do not do that CCR isn't viable,» she said.
So why are all these relatively
well resourced families sending their children to lower - performing charter schools as measured by state tests?
Some States
train resource families (foster, adoptive, and kinship parents) together using a nationally recognized curriculum such as PATH (Parents as Tender Healers), PRIDE (Parent Resources for Information, Development, and Education), or PS - MAPP (Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting), but other States and agencies may use local versions of these or other curricula.
The resources in this section offer information on recruiting, retaining, and supporting a range of prospective and current
resource families as well as State and local examples.
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Law Resources Family Law Act Orders Picklist Tips for Drafting Provincial Court Orders
Downloads and Links: Siblings In Best Settings Program
Resource Family Handbook A Guide To Post Adoption Resources: English Spanish Subsidized Adoption Program Brochure: English Spanish Adoption Registry Brochure: English Spanish Recruitment Materials: English Spanish Homes for Siblings: English / Spanish Homes for Teens: English / Spanish Foster Care Tuition - Scholarship Program
The internal and external
resources the family uses to adapt to the adversity (eg drawing on extended family, relying on individual strengths, receiving social support from school)
Families who have an approved adoption home study prior to January 1, 2018 will be deemed to be an
approved resource family.
Kevin M. McGuire, a one - time New York City social services caseworker who up until this week was executive director of the Maryland Department of
Human Resources Family Investment Administration, was selected following a nationwide search.
To date, the limited evidence about children with lesser risks or children from strong, healthy, well -
resourced families indicates that high - quality education (as expected) does not have a strong positive or negative effect.
As part of a federally funded collaboration called Critical
Ongoing Resource Family Education or CORE, NACAC is currently working with Spaulding for Children and other partners to help improve the training offered to foster and adoptive parents of children who are older and have more needs.
«This is yet another missed opportunity for the Government to better
resource Family Violence Prevention Legal Services (FVPLS) who provide legal services and supports to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander victims / survivors of family violence, with more than 90 % of our clients nationally being Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and children.»
It encompasses the inclusion of children and youth (when age appropriate), as well as adult family members, in case planning and case activities, and also involves supporting the development of relationships
between resource families and biological families.
While you are completing the training, an assigned worker will verify information with you and perform a Home Study /
Resource Family Assessment (RFA).
Recruiting and retaining
resource families Addresses how agencies can effectively recruit and retain kin, foster, and adoptive families for children who have been removed from their homes
PRIDE Model of Practice: Parent Resources for Information, Development, and Education Child Welfare League of America Links to the PRIDE model for training and supporting foster, adoptive, and
kinship resource families.
Resource Families Partnering with Birth Families (PDF - 1,497 KB) Iowa Foster and Adoptive Parents Association (2009) Addresses the importance of positive connections between foster and birth parents and ways foster parents can contribute to the success of these partnerships and support reunification plans.
Adoptive Families
Coalition resources families with post-adoption challenges, including offering a sponsorship program to parents in search of financial assistance in acquiring mental / behavioral health treatment that is not covered through insurance or other means.
Implementing the PRIDE Model of Practice provides your agency with the opportunity to ensure that your staff and
resource families commit to your agency's vision, mission, and values; have complementary competency - based roles; use strengths - based language; implement culturally responsive best practices; and work to achieve outcomes that support safety, well - being, and permanency for the children in your care.
The Family Development program recruits, trains, and supports families who are interested in becoming
resource families through foster care, adoption, relative, kinship or respite care.
Resource Family Tip Sheet for Supporting Reunification (PDF - 243 KB) American Bar Association (2017) Provides practical tips for child welfare professionals engaging families in key processes related to reunification.