Announcements
Posted 2/27/2012
Ashley's Story: Featured Foster Alumni
Ashley is a living example that it only takes one person to change the life of a child. Thanks to a volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocate, she was able to defy the odds stacked against her after spending a decade of her life in foster care. Now 25, Ashley is a college graduate and fosters three children with her husband Rick.
Posted 2/13/2012
AdoptUSKids Wishes the Ad Council a Happy 70th Birthday
Saturday, Feb. 18, 2012, is the Ad Council’s 70th anniversary. AdoptUSKids, along with the U.S. Children’s Bureau, have partnered with the Ad Council since 2003 on an award-winning adoption recruitment campaign encouraging the adoption of children from foster care.
Posted 2/1/2012
Amanda Koon is AdoptUSKids' February Caseworker of the Month
Amanda Koon, an adoption specialist for the South Carolina Department of Social Services Region II Adoption Services office in Columbia, South Carolina, is our February Caseworker of the Month. Her passion in being an advocate for families helped retain a couple pursing adoption after having a child removed from their home and returned to his birth mother.
Posted 1/31/2012
Roles Supervisors and Managers Play in Recruitment and Retention
Treat Them Like Gold: A Best Practice Guide to Partnering With Resource Families (PDF – 3.82 MB) is a valuable resource that can be useful to those who plan and lead an agency’s efforts in recruiting and retaining families. This comprehensive publication by the North Carolina Division of Social Services is full of well-detailed strategies to engage foster, adoptive, and kinship families and support them at every stage of the process from initial inquiry to post-placement services.
Posted 1/31/2012
Trauma-Informed Support for Foster and Adoptive Families
Responding to challenging behaviors of children and youth is among the most common concerns foster, adoptive, and kinship families have when looking to their agencies for support. Several new resources address this challenge by providing information on the use of trauma-informed approaches to help parents build relationships with children and youth in care.
