Retention / Recruitment
Recruiting enough foster and adoptive parents to care for children, and supporting those parents so that they don’t quit, is crucial to meeting children’s needs for safety, permanency and well-being. You will find in many of the resources below that effective recruitment and retention is often not about spending more money, it is about treating the families respectfully, involving them in decision-making regarding the children in their care, responding promptly to questions, and training agency staff in good customer service.
- Why Foster Parents are Leaving (pdf)
- What Kind of Support Do Foster Parents Ask For?
- Supporting and Retaining Foster Parents: NCSL Report
- Family to Family Tools for Recruiting and Retaining Foster Parents (pdf)
- Finding Families for Children in Foster Care: NC Practice Notes
- NRCPFC Recruitment/Retention Resources
- Supporting the Needs of Foster Parents: NYS OCFS Recommendations (pdf)
- Ethics and Adoptive Family Recruitment
- Family Finding: Lighting the Fire of Urgency
- Preventing Homelessness Through Relationships
- It’s Time to Make Older Child Adoption A Reality (pdf)
- An Examination of Theory and Promising Practice for Achieving Permanency for Teens (pdf)
Last modified: January 27, 2010
