Outstanding Caseworker: Karla Adams
“As a caseworker, there are good days, and there are bad days. But there are seldom boring days!”
AdoptUSKids
AdoptUSKids authors include experts in child welfare, communications, evaluation, and/or technology from across the United States. Together, they drive the AdoptUSKids project, as it supports foster and adoptive families, raises awareness about the nationwide need for more of these families, and provides resources to child welfare systems and professionals.
Lessons I’ve learned in 20 years of casework
A Nevada adoption worker says: “there is a lot of growing to be done in this job.”
Parents weigh in: what I learned in training
Responses to the question: What is the most surprising thing you learned about being a foster parent during training?
“More family than we expected”
When Terri and Paul Ross adopted two daughters, they also welcomed the girls’ grandmother into the family.
Creating an adoption family profile: tips from workers
We asked workers who use our photolisting what advice they would give families who are registering on an adoption site like ours. This is what they told us.
Outstanding Caseworker: Anna Wood
Anna Wood says that a big part of her job is doing what she can to make foster parents’ lives easier, because “they have a really hard job, and they do it 24/7.”