Webinars on Recruitment and Retention

We offer free webinars aimed at helping you achieve better outcomes for children through creative strategies, promising practices, and new ideas from the field. Find out about our upcoming webinars or view our archive of past webinars below.

All webinars are hosted by the National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment at AdoptUSKids in coordination with members of the U.S. Children’s Bureau Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Network.

Upcoming Webinars

No upcoming webinars are scheduled at this time. Check back soon for updates.

Our Past Webinars

LGBT-Headed Foster and Adoptive Families: Youth Perspectives

This free 90-minute webinar held on June 21, 2012:

• Highlighted research by AdoptUSKids on the perspectives of youth adopted from the foster care system by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parents
• Shared helpful youth perspectives, practice tips, and resources on LGBT
  parents from the National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections

View the archived recording (free registration required)
Download the webinar presentation (PDF–697 KB)
 

2011 National Adoption Month: Build Capacity to Make Lasting Change

This free 90-minute webinar held on October 27, 2011:

• Showcased new materials to honor National Adoption Month all year long
• Introduced and highlighted U.S. Children's Bureau sponsored resources available through Child Welfare Information Gateway, the National Resource Center for Adoption, the Ad Council, and AdoptUSKids

View the archived webinar (free registration required)
Download the webinar presentation (PDF --1.7 MB)
 

Engaging Community Stakeholders: Strategies for Effective Recruitment of Foster and Adoptive Families

This free 90-minute webinar held on July 20, 2011, focused on the importance of partnering with community stakeholders to recruit foster and adoptive families for children in foster care. It highlighted creative strategies several of the Children’s Bureau’s 2008 Diligent Recruitment Grantees are using to do this by:

• Sharing lessons learned on building effective relationships with community partners
• Exploring how community partnerships have helped agencies strengthen their recruitment efforts
• Offering specific suggestions to engage community partners
   

View the archived webinar (free registration required)
Download the webinar presintation (PDF - 2.1 MB)
 

National Adoption Month: Strategies for Permanence that
Create Lasting Change

This webinar was held on November 3, 2010 to:

• Provide tips, tools, and strategies to enhance recruitment and retention plans during National Adoption Month and throughout the year
• Highlight components of the AdoptUSKids website as a tool to support National Adoption Month activities
• Share creative ideas from the field that other agencies can do immediately and plan for months to come
• Identify great new resources for building your agency’s capacity
• Introduce the 2010 National Adoption Month website and the 2010 National Adoption Month Capacity Building Toolkit (PDF – 6 MB)
   

View the archived webinar (free registration required)
Download the PowerPoint presentation (PDF – 1.45 MB)
Download the webinar worksheet (PDF – 112 KB)

Looking for more webinars?

• National Resource Center for Adoption webcasts
• National Resource Center for Permanency and Family Connections teleconferences, webinars, and webcasts
• National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement teleconferences and webinars