Answering the Call Publications
To assist States and Tribes in recruiting foster and adoptive families for children in foster care, The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids has developed a number of recruitment resources. These tools encourage good practice regarding foster care and adoption recruitment. Simply click on the appropriate link below for a PDF version of these publications. Please read our new policy for ordering and pricing publications. To order publications, please use our order form.
Publications for Professionals
Practitioner's Guide
Getting More Parents for Children from Your Recuritment Efforts*: to help recruiters and agency staff to retain more parents from their recruitment efforts. (PDF 2.7 MB/45 pages)
Finding a Fit that Will Last a Lifetime: A Guide to Connecting Adoptive Families with Waiting Children* (PDF 374 KB/63 pages)
Wherever My Family Is, That's Home! Adoption Services for Military Families*: provides a roadmap to help caseworkers make quality and timely adoption services readily available for military families. (PDF 1.5 MB/92 pages)
Dollars and Sense: A Guide to Achieving Adoptions Through Public-Private Contracting: Designed to provide public and private agency program managers, supervisors, and contract managers with information to facilitate the purchase of interjurisdictional adoption services. (PDF 762 KB/68 pages)
Nuestra Familia, Nuestra Cultura (Our Family, Our Culture): Promoting & Supporting Latino Families in Adoption and Foster Care: The goal of this publication is to help agencies and their employees to increase their cross-cultural understanding and effectiveness when serving the needs and interests of Latino families and children. This guide demonstrates respect for individuality as well as values, practices and beliefs that are shared by persons who self-identify as belonging to a Latino culture. (PDF 1.7 MB/70 pages)
Photolisting Guide
Lasting Impressions: A Guide for Photolisting Children: CD-Rom included (PDF 615 KB/50 pages)
Faith-Based Guide
Finding Common Ground: A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies Working with Communities of Faith*: A Guide for Child Welfare Agencies Working with Communities of Faith. (PDF 2.9 MB/100 pages)
Research Study
Barriers and Success Factors in Adoption from Foster Care: Perspectives of Families & Staff: This report presents the findings of two research studies conducted by Dr. Ruth McRoy's research team at the University of Texas at Austin Center for Social Work Research. These studies were longitudinal and spanned the first five years of the AdoptUsKids project (2002-2007). Findings from the two studies focused on:
- barriers experienced by a nationwide group of families seeking to adopt children from the U.S. foster care system and
- factors which contribute to successful adoption outcomes for families adopting children from foster care.
Read the report (PDF 1.2 MB/118 pages) or watch the video presentation.
Report to Congress
The Report to Congress on the Barriers and Success Factors in Adoption from Foster Care is now in the hands of Congress! Read the full report including the letters to Congress.
ICPC Receiving and Sending State Checklists
To serve as an overview and generalized description of how ICPC might operate for children and youth being placed across State lines with recruited, general applicant families for the purpose of adoption.
National Adoption Month Toolkit
National Adoption Month Recruitment & Marketing Toolkit (2009): designed to assist agencies in promoting November as National Adoption Month. (PDF 567 KB MB/64 pages)
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