CFSP 5 Year Plan - RI Department of Children, Youth & Families

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II. Objective: The Department of Children, Youth and Families will ensure a timely search for an adoptive placement for a waiting child while providing that placement of a child in an appropriate household is not delayed by the search for the same race or ethnic placement. DCYF continues to maintain and expand its data base of waiting families. DCYF children are registered with appropriate exchanges, including Adoption Rhode Island, AdoptUSKids, both private and contracted agencies and regional exchanges. Exchanges have expanded their services to include websites and these resources are also being utilized in our efforts to place waiting children. In order to assure that all professionals working to promote adoptive resources are kept abreast of updates, a review of Waiting Families and Waiting Children is conducted every six weeks with DCYF’s Adoption Preparation and Support Unit, Adoption RI and other contracted providers. Clinical Training Specialists are available for case consultations on an ongoing basis. At the present time, telephone consultations occur on an almost daily basis, and staff are always available to set up consultations regarding specific cases and/or issues. In addition, Adoption Preparation and Support staff hold regularly scheduled meetings in the various Regional offices. These meetings afford an opportunity for FSU staff to bring cases and issues for discussion on a less formal basis, and will also provide a forum for training FSU staff and supervisors on adoption issues and procedures. In conjunction with Adoption RI, DCYF continues to conduct child specific recruitment on a caseby-case basis, utilizing television, newspapers and other methods to locate homes for specific children. Some of the children who might need this type of recruitment include physically challenged children. In addition to recruiting homes for these children, DCYF will also conduct individual training and home studies to further facilitate the placement of these children. Permanent connections for children may also be achieved through a Visiting Resource Program. Our Department in collaboration with the Rhode Island Foster Parents Association, Casey Family Services and RICORP has established the Real Connections program. Real Connections pairs caring adults with youth in transition from substitute care with the goal of providing an adult connection who can assist the youth in this transition period and also remain as a caring adult as the youth moves into the adult world. Families who are matched for the initial purpose of visiting with a child, may consider adoption of the child in the future or may continue as a valuable resource and support to a family who comes forward to adopt the child. Approximately 25% of Visiting Resource Families go on to become Adoptive Resources for the children whom they visit. III. Objective: DCYF will implement specific strategies in order to reach all parties in a diverse community. Advertising is crucial to recruitment efforts. DCYF staff in conjunction with Adoption Rhode Island make regular television and radio appearances to inform members of minority populations of events and recruitment activities such as regular information meetings. R.I. Department of Children, Youth and Families Title IV-B Child and Family Service Plan – 2010 - 2014 23
Other recruitment efforts are in process. Adoption RI has developed a “Youth Speaks Out” panel made of teens and young adults. All have come through the DCYF foster care system and several have been adopted. They “speak out” very poignantly for the need for adoption and take their stories to many diverse groups. The business community is an area that we have only begun to tap in terms of recruitment efforts. Local Post Offices in RI have assisted in the promotion of Adoption Information. Attempts to conduct on-site recruitment at area businesses employing significant numbers of minority personnel are still in process. IV. Objective: DCYF will implement methods for disseminating both general and child specific information. DCYF contracts with Adoption RI for specific recruitment on local television and in daily and weekly regional newspapers. Information on specific children is made available to the AdoptUsKids! Website, a service of the Children’s Bureau. With the assistance of a mini-grant from the Children’s Bureau and AdoptUskids, Adoption Rhode Island has developed video capacity on its website. This innovation allows perspective adoptive families to see the available children at play, interacting with others and to hear the children as they speak about their desire for an adoptive family. Since 2002, Adoption RI has been promoting a campaign specifically targeted to finding homes for minority children. The campaign has produced and disseminated brochures and conducted advertising focusing on the minority children who are waiting for adoptive homes. A team of adoptive parents is presently working with staff from Adoption Rhode Island to promote awareness about special needs adoption through the state library system. They are holding recruitment events in several libraries throughout the state and are ensuring that libraries maintain and make available current photo listings of waiting children. DCYF and Adoption Rhode Island produced a fourth annual “Heart Gallery”, portraits of twenty of the longest waiting children. The Fourth Annual Heart Gallery opening was in November of 2007. The portraits were displayed in the Rotunda of the Rhode Island State House during National Adoption Month. Since that time the Heart Gallery has been on tour at various locations within the state including Hasbro Headquarters, Cardi’s Furniture, libraries and many other locations. The tour will continue until November when the opening for the Fifth Annual Heart Gallery is planned. The Heart Gallery has generated a great deal of interest in foster care and adoption and, most importantly, 40% of the children appearing in the gallery, have found resource families. On National Adoption Day, 2008, adoptions were finalized for some of our longest waiting children. R.I. Department of Children, Youth and Families Title IV-B Child and Family Service Plan – 2010 - 2014 24
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