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Resources for Diligent and Targeted Recruitment

The following resources offer ideas, promising practices, and strategies for States and agencies seeking out new ways to recruit adoptive and foster parents who reflect the race and ethnicity of children in foster care.

Federal Resources

The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids
- Webpage on diligent recruitment:
  www.adoptuskids.org/professionalResourceCenter/diligentRecruitment.aspx
- Webpage of reports on diligent recruitment:
  www.adoptuskids.org/professionalResourceCenter/resourcesAndReports.aspx#diligentRecruitment
- Spanish-language web section:
  www.adopte1.org/
- Webpage on the Answering the Call series, including Finding Common Ground: A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies Working With Communities of Faith:
  www.adoptuskids.org/resourceCenter/atcPublications.aspx
The National Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice and Permanency Planning webpage on general recruitment and retention, as well as some resources on targeted recruitment:
www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/nrcfcpp/info_services/recruitment-and-retention.html
Exemplary Title IV-B Recruitment Plan Elements (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1995):
www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/laws_policies/policy/pi/1995/pi9523a3.htm

State and County

Recruitment and Retention of African American Resource Families: Ohio's Promising Practices:
http://jfs.ohio.gov/oapl/adoptionofafricanamericanchilldren2006.pdf
Selected Review of Foster Care and Adoption Recruitment Models and Strategies (prepared by AdoptUsKids for Los Angeles County, 2006):
http://216.38.216.37/adoptusa/documents/AdoptUsKidsRecruitmentModelsandStrategies_000.pdf
Recruitment of Minority Adoptive Families webpage of training materials for Pennsylvania:
www.pacwcbt.pitt.edu/curriculum/201%20Recruitment%20of%20Minority%20Adoptive%20Families.html
Specific Strategies to Reach the Multiethnic Community webpage for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services:
http://www.dfps.state.tx.us/about/state_plan/1999_progress_report/sec6.asp

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