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All Children - All Families Promising Practices Guide 3rd Edition

3/21/2011

The Promising Practices Guide is the first comprehensive, practical tool aimed to help adoption and foster care agencies and exchange organizations improve policies and practices that affect their work with LGBT prospective adoptive parents.

The Guide features sample policies and materials, along with tips from leaders of welcoming agencies and exchange organizations, researchers in the field and LGBT adoptive and foster parents. Topics include leadership and governance; staff training and recruitment strategies; pre-adoption services; home study practices; placement; services for foster parents; post-permanency support for adoptive families and retention of foster families.

New in the Third Edition:

  • Content related to transgender prospective parents in the Resources section
  • Tips and stories related to adoption exchanges, with the leaders and staff members from three exchanges offering insights
  • Feedback from directors of three agencies that have earned the ACAF Seal of Recognition
  • Information on the comprehensive, five-part agency training curriculum developed by All Children – All Families