American Foster Care Resources

Establishing and maintaining an effective foster and adoptive family home recruitment and retention program involves a set of practical, learnable skills. Recognizing the limited resources and increased demands on agency's staff AFCR now offers a basic course in a one-day training program for foster and adoptive family recruiters. The session provides the opportunity for both the new and the experienced foster and adoptive home recruiter to obtain, review and enhance those basic skills and to share concepts and program experiences with peers from around the country.

Expanding the curriculum, the program utilizing AFCR's The Road to Quality Foster & Adoptive Care: A Comprehensive Recruitment Manual; Recruiter's Notebook and Planning Guide; "How to Prepare a Press Kit" Kit; How to Establish and Maintain a Speaker's Bureau Kit plus topical handouts as a comprehensive and practice-based curriculum.

The session will walk the recruiter through a "from the beginning to end" planning process that personalizes a recruitment and retention model for your agency, based on your agency's resources and on your agency's needs. A one-day, intensive recruitment and retention program development session for foster and adoptive family home recruiters.

Pre-registration is required; workshop space is limited - first come first served. The registration fee of $295.00 is per person; the training session is 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM.

The Recuitment and Retention Curriculum includes: The Road to Quality Foster and Adoptive Care: A Comprehensive Recruitment Manual; Recruiter's Notebook and Planning Guide; "How to Prepare a Press Kit" Kit; How to Establish and Maintain a Speaker's Bureau Kit plus topical handouts.

Completed registration forms or letter listing name, complete address, telephone and fax number >>PLEASE STATE SITE SELECTION<<, accompanied by payment of fees or by agency purchase order or authorization to invoice the agency will be honored subject to capacity limitations. Refunds honored less $45.00 administrative fee until site registration deadline, no refund after site deadline. Cancellations must be in writing. Registration is site specific and is not transferable.

For space availability contact AFCR: 540-775- 7410 - 9:00 A.M.-4:00 P.M., Eastern, Monday-Friday.

If you want a hard copy of the registration form please email us your postal address and we will add you to our mailing list. You may download the form here: R&R Registration Form: The form is in Adobe Acrobat format. You may download and print the form. You will need the Adobe Acrobat reader software or the browser plug-in. It can be obtained from www.adobe.com.

Site: The all-day training will be held in the hotel property; individual reservations for sleeping rooms need to be made directly with the respective hotel, not through AFCR.

To receive the sleeping room group rate listed please mention that you are with the American Foster Care Resources group.

Foster & Adoptive Family Home
Recruitment & Retention
Agenda

Check-in & Continental Breakfast 8:00-8:30 AM

8:30-8:45 AM

A. Reality Based Recruitment & Retention
B. Community Partners/Stakeholders
C. Assessing Your Needs
D. Recruitment & Retention Obstacles
E. A Planned Recruitment Campaign
F. Your Current Home Population
G. Statements of Need
H. Evaluation of Previous Efforts
I. Problems & Obstacles

10:30-10:45 AM Break

If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You'll Probably End Up Somewhere Else.

2012 Schedule