The Road to Quality Foster and Adoptive Care:
A Comprehensive Recruitment Manual
Individuals and task forces charged with the responsibility for recruiting and retaining foster and adoptive family homes are usually faced with creating something from nothing. They must learn as they go, belatedly succeed through trial and error, and piece together whatever they can from scattered and incomplete resources. It is a tribute to their ingenuity that any successful recruitment programs have been implemented.
For twenty five years and now issued in it's Eighth Edition, The Road to Quality Foster and Adoptive Care: A Comprehensive Recruitment Manual presents in a single volume all the elements of public relations, planning, recruitment research and evaluation, needs assessment and proposal development necessary for successful recruitment.
- How to Begin and Why: Why Recruit, Why Retain? Effective Recruitment. Recruitment Task Forces and Advisory Committees
- Defining the Problem and Assessing the Need: Recruitment and Retention Baseline Data; Assessing Support and Anticipating Problems and Obstacles
- If You Don't Know Where You're Going, You Will Probably End Up Somewhere Else: Goals and Objectives; Begin with your definitions
- The People to Do the Job
- Choosing a Focus and a Theme: General and Child Specific Recruitment; Standard Message Units
- Recruitment Tools: Planning; the Recruitment Calendar; Print and electronic media
- Putting it Together - Developing Your Proposal and Action Plan
- Data Collection and Record-keeping: A Recruitment Data and Filing System
The manual also includes suggestions, tricks of the trade and pitfalls to avoid -- all drawing from the experiences of successful recruiters. The manual guides the reader through an actual planning process resulting in a program that can be implemented immediately.
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