Strategies to Recruit Foster Parents for Unaccompanied Refugee Minors
What will this webinar cover?
URM foster care serving agencies often face challenges recruiting, training, licensing, and retaining foster parents for unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs). Misconceptions about refugees, the resettlement process, and the foster care system coupled with long licensing processes and complex systems can all contribute to individuals’ reluctance to foster URMs. This webinar will explore strategies to address these issues with creative recruitment methods, such as leveraging demographic and motivational data of current foster parents and conducting community assessments to identify current trends and other areas of need. We will discuss the importance of amplifying the voices of URMs and foster parents when using community engagement techniques to support recruitment. Additionally, we will focus on promoting accessible, inclusive, equitable, and flexible strategies for recruiting and retaining foster parents. Lastly, we will address when and how to use targeted recruitment approaches, as well as build the capacity of current licensed foster parents to welcome refugee youth.
Is this webinar for me?
This webinar will benefit foster care recruiters and newcomer service providers at URM foster care serving agencies who are involved in recruitment of foster parents for URMs. Direct service providers and recruitment support staff interested in learning innovative approaches to recruitment challenges are welcome to attend.
Why should I participate?
After participating in this 90-minute session, you will be able to:
Gather and leverage demographic and motivational data of current URM foster parents to enhance recruitment efforts
Apply community engagement techniques to amplify voices and stories of URMs and foster parents
Determine when and how to effectively use targeted recruitment approaches
Develop accessible, inclusive, equitable, and flexible recruitment approaches using diverse communication and marketing methods