Foster & Adoptive Family Home
Recruitment & Retention
Workshop and Rountable
AFCR now sponsors two foster and adoptive home recruitment training sessions:
Foster & Adoptive Family Home
Recruitment & Retention Workshop:
Building on the Basics
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.
For sites and agenda information-See: WORKSHOP
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Foster and Adoptive Home
Recruitment & Retention Roundtable
Enhancing Your Programming Model for
Foster Family and Adoptive Home Recruitment
Answering the need for those agencies for whom the current recruiting model is simply not enough, AFCR presents a one-day intensive seminar Recruitment Roundtable that offers a planning session identifying challenges and opportunities for recession-based recruitment and retention, barriers and impediments to getting more for less out of your current recruitment efforts, offering programming strategies for developing a program model for successful foster home retention, the implications of retention programming on recruitment of foster families for your agency and promoting peer collaboration and support for your recruitment programming by your agency staff.
As this session presupposes your agency has a successful recruitment program, participants should be knowledgeable regarding your agency's recruitment program including pre-service orientation, in-service training components and in-service staff development. Participants are encouraged to bring a copy of their recruitment and retention plan(s) and examples of their recruitment materials.
Participants begin by defining the what, when and why of their current foster and adoptive home recruitment programming with special attention to home retention with a focus on the motivations for families to foster/adopt, develop an understanding of demands, stressors and malefactors that undermine that motivation, identify your agency's organizational and programmatic barriers to more successful recruitment and retention and then produce a comprehensive plan to ameliorate those barriers.