Diligent Recruitment of Families for Children in the Foster Care System

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The purpose of this announcement is to fund, by awarding cooperative agreements, comprehensive multi-faceted diligent recruitment programs for a range of resource families for children in foster care, including kinship, foster, concurrent, and adoptive families. Funded projects will:  1.    Implement comprehensive multi-faceted diligent recruitment programs for resource families, including kinship, foster, concurrent, and adoptive families for children and youth served by public child welfare agencies as a means of improving permanency outcomes; 2.    Integrate the diligent recruitment program with other agency programs, including foster care case planning and permanency planning processes, to facilitate active concurrent planning activities;   3.    Demonstrate the capacity to use this project as a transformative platform for improved system response to permanency, incorporating in changes at the policy and practice levels and embracing a philosophy of permanency beginning at the entry in the child welfare system; 4.    Evaluate the implementation of the comprehensive diligent recruitment programs to document processes and potential linkages between diligent recruitment and improved outcomes; and 5.    Develop identifiable sites that other States/locales seeking to implement improved diligent recruitment methods can look to for guidance, insight, and possible replication.

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