- Introduction to Relative Care: A Resource Guide for Child Welfare Workers (PDF), from the Foster Care and Adoption Resource Center
- The Rural Adoption Recruiter: A Guide to Growing Families This simple guide has great ideas for not only rural adoption recruiters, but also has ideas that apply for anyone wanting to recruit foster and adoptive families.
- Lean On Me: Support and Minority Outreach for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren This comprehensive guide offers a lot of information, all the while offering separate sections for African American, Hispanic, and Native American families.
- Treat Them Like Gold: A Best Practice Guide to Partnering with Resource Families: Though this guide provides many specific strategies that have proven effective in North Carolina and elsewhere, at its heart is one basic rule: if you want to successfully recruit, retain, and partner with resource families, treat them like gold. This guide seeks to give you tools and strategies you and your agency can use to build, refine, and sustain partnerships with resource families.