Go Foster!
Social Services - Tallahassee, FL, US
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GO FOSTER! works to improve the lives of children in foster care through four interrelated activities. Our slogan summarizes these: "recruit, retain, research, repeat!" Here's what we mean by the first three:Recruit. On average, state foster care systems operate with only 35% of the families they need to properly serve the children in their communities. This results in strained case workers, overworked foster parents, reliance on group homes, and sub-par outcomes for foster children. We host various outreach activities at churches, community events, and local businesses. Our proprietary recruiting method, emphasizing one-to-one contact that "normalizes" fostering for prospective families, is approximately 90% more effective than traditional recruitment methods.Retain. Given the difficulty associated with recruiting new foster families, it is critical that we retain as many current families as possible. One state in which we are active recently set an annual goal to recruit 1200 new foster homes. While they achieved this recruitment goal, they also lost 1100 previously active homes. This is like trying to fill a bath tub without plugging the drain. GO FOSTER! seeks to increase the "flow rate" by recruiting great foster homes and "plug the drain" by improving the retention of existing ones. Since beginning our parent retention program, we have experienced over 80% retention of participating families. Research. Foster parent recruitment and retention should not be guided by intuition alone. The only way to facilitate long-term improvement in the foster system is to measure the effects of our efforts. By doing so, future investments in child dependency will be increasingly effective. That's good news for taxpayers as well as children! GO FOSTER! is building a panel of foster parents that will allow us to begin optimizing recruiting and retention practices. We have the expertise of several Ph.D. researchers and the trust of our member parents.
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