Extreme Recruitment for Foster Care and Adoption

A Good Idea

Description

Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association (MFCAA)'s Extreme Recruitment program uses traditional recruitment strategies, supplemented by case file mining, to research and locate all known and unknown relatives and making personal contact with all appropriate family members. This multi-faceted approach significantly increases the resource options available for a child's permanent placement, especially for those children labeled as "hard to place" or unadoptable.

Goal / Mission

The goal of the Extreme Recruitment program is to use MFCAA's expertise in facilitating adoption and kinship placement to find permanent, successful forever homes for foster children who would otherwise remain in foster care or residential treatment until adulthood.

Impact

In its pilot year, the program successfully placed 22 children in permanent homes.

Results / Accomplishments

In its pilot year, the MFCAA Extreme Recruitment team experienced immediate success with all of its initial cases, including finding permanency options for youth that had previously been in residential treatment for years. The original goal was to find placement for 20 children; however, by the end of the first year 22 children were successfully placed.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association
Primary Contact
Danielle Schweiger
18600 E. 37th Terrace
Box 11
Independence, MO 64057
816-350-0215 ext. 357
danielle@mfcaa.org
http://www.mfcaa.org
Topics
Health / Children's Health
Community / Social Environment
Organization(s)
Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association
Date of implementation
2011
Location
Missouri
For more details
http://www.mfcaa.org/membership/becoming-family/ex...
Target Audience
Children, Teens
Additional Audience
Foster and adoptive children
Submitted By
Sarah Hurd, Kansas Health Institute

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  1. The program description includes: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program funding source, program implementation steps and outcomes.
  2. The program evaluation is limited to descriptive measure(s) of success/accomplishment (i.e., program participation rates, number of services/education sessions/radio messages provided). Note: oftentimes, the program has been newly implemented and a program evaluation has not yet been conducted. Programs that have not yet been evaluated, but which show promise in improving health or quality of life, are classified as Good Ideas until an evaluation is conducted.