Recruitment and Retention Summits

2008: Denise Goodman

Targeted Recruitment Strategies by Denise Goodman. Denise has been a child welfare professional for over 30 years. She began her career working with emotionally disturbed teens in a residential treatment facility and has held positions as a protective services social worker, Residential Treatment Coordinator, Research/Education Specialist, and Training Specialist. She is also a foster parent.

Recruitment Slogans Denise Goodman divided up the summit participants and had them create various recruitment strategies. Feel free to use these.

Retention Posters

2007: Concurrent Planning

Concurrent Planning: Permanency for Children and Youth presentation by Mary M. McGowan. In addition to Mary's extensive professional work, she has fostered many children over nearly 20 years and is an adoptive parent of 4. She is also a CASA and has experience with advocacy and success in obtaining services necessary for children.

2006: Promising Practices in the Recruitment and Retention of Resource Families

These eight documents that Lorrie used in her presentation are in zipped format. Please download the zipped file and then extract the files to your computer. We hope these will documents will assist you with your recruitment efforts. More information about Lorrie Lutz.