Child Specific Recruitment
Child Specific Recruitment
Website: https://www.northhomes.org/program/child-specific-recruitment/
North Homes can provide child-specific recruitment (CSR) services to find a permanency option for a specific youth or sibling group in foster care. Child-specific recruitment services are free and may be used once a county or Tribal social service agency has exhausted routine activity efforts. Through this process, our recruiter activity works with the youth's treatment team and involves the youth when developmentally appropriate. Child-specific recruitment services are available for youth under State or Tribal guardianship, ages 6 to 18, and sibling groups being placed together where the oldest youth is age 6 or older. These services may be extended to youth, ages 18 to 21, provided that PPAI recruitment services began prior to the youth's 18th birthday, and the youth remained in foster care.
Recruitment Activities may include:
- Presentation at North Homes Adoption and Foster Care staff meetings.
- Presentation of children via email on statewide adoption lists.
- Presentation at various adoption matching events.
- Referral for Heart Gallery photoshoot.
- Referral to Real Hope.
- Develop a Lifebook.
- Participation in recruitment events.
- Matching with a mentor.
- Identification of important people from youth's past, and exploration of their potential to be adoptive resources.
Contact:
Bemidji: (218) 751-0282
Grand Rapids: (218) 327-3000
Duluth: (218) 733-3000