Retention / Recruitment
Every youth in foster care needs and deserves a permanent family. Despite the nation’s stated goal to achieve permanency for children, in 2007 more than 28,000 youth aged out of foster care, meaning they left the child welfare system without a permanent family. The Fostering Connections and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 strengthened the federal mandate that leave each youth leave foster care with a permanent family through safe reunification with their parents, adoption, guardianship, or that they have “another planned permanent living arrangement. In this section you will find promising practices and models for recruiting and retaining foster and adoptive families for waiting children, and achieving permanency for older youth.
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