Strategies
- Recruit families who want to foster, not adopt
- Use data to improve foster family recruitment
- Keep inquiry families engaged over time
- Make recruitment materials representative of your community
- Use digital marketing and social media for foster family recruitment
- Include placement and recruitment teams in case planning
- Consider placements with families that are still getting licensed
- Recruit kin caregivers to become general caregivers
- Provide childcare at caregiver events and trainings
- Include caregivers in recruitment efforts to bring in new caregivers