Recruitment
Ideas
Recruitment Ideas & Overcoming Barriers to Placement Of Teens
Below are resources for learning how to recruit homes for teens in foster care and how to overcome the barriers that get the way of recruiting homes and placing teens in permanent homes.
Videos of Interest:
Three Part Series on Youtube Entitled: Breaking Barriers to Teen Adoption
Watch this Great Two Part Series: “WE INTERRUPT”
Listen to what Minnesota Youth have to say about being recruited for. This fabulous production was made possible by Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS)
Watch this terrific conversation:
Gary Mallon and Pat O’Brien had entitled
A Discussion about Permanency for Older Adolescents.
Also, watch this excellent short film that follows six teens who aged out of a mid-western State foster care system. Click here to view.
Audios of Interest:
You Gotta Believe! offers an excellent radio forum where we interview many adoptive parents of teens and emerging adults who moved in as teens and a variety of professionals who work with families with this unique background.
Listen to any one of the 100 most recent broadcasts we conducted on WGBB radio 1240 on the AM dial every Sunday evening from 8-9pm EST.
Writings of Interest:
Want To know how to Recruit Families For Older Children & Teens In Care?
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Want to learn how to find families for teens?
Read this great publication and desk reference from the
National Resource Center for Family Center Practice and Permanency Planning
at the Hunter College School of Social Worker called
Six Steps To Find A Family: A Practice Guide to Family Search and Engagement
.
View Six Steps Here
Great New Article: Children and Youth Services Review:
”An Examination of Theory and Promising Practice for Achieving Permanency for Teens
Before They Age out of Foster Care” by Rosemary J. Avery.
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