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Extreme Recruitment

Extreme Recruitment. Missouri’s Collaboration to Provide Permanency. Collaboration - Who We Are.

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Extreme Recruitment

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  1. Extreme Recruitment Missouri’s Collaboration to Provide Permanency

  2. Collaboration - Who We Are • Public and private partnership consisting of the Missouri Children’s Division staff, Contracted Case Management Agencies and Contracted Providers of Foster/Adopt Training and Post Permanency Support Services in St. Louis region. • All with a common goal of achieving permanency for Missouri children who wait.

  3. Demonstrated Need 1082 children identified in the project area age 10 or over and having been in care for 15 months or more.

  4. Intended Outcomes The program will serve 150 youth during the grant period: • Ensuring a system of supportive adults for at least 90% of those youth • Achieving permanency through adoption or guardianship for at least 70% of those youth

  5. Consequences of Youth Aging Out of Foster Care • 355 Missouri youth aged out of the foster care system without familial support 27% or 96 of these youth from the St. Louis region (FY2007) • 20,000 youth aged out of the foster care system nationally (FY2007) • 38% experience mental health issues • 50% become involved in illegal drug use • 25% become involved with the criminal justice system

  6. Extreme Services Pathway Comparison group to receive traditional services Workgroup identifies eligibility criteria for children who meet threshold (>15 months in care, > age 10 years) and the group to which this criteria applies Extreme Recruitment Team identifies potential placement resource Group is randomized Study group to receive enhanced services Referred to extreme recruitment team Extreme Recruitment team refers potential placement resource to Training and Support Services Supervisor Training and Support Services Supervisor works with potential resource families to begin background checks, provide support and refer for Extreme Education Criteria are set regarding incoming resource families Potential resource families that meet criteria are referred to Training and Support Services Supervisor

  7. Project Components Extreme Recruitment

  8. Relatives • Team-Decision • Family Finding • Discovery • Engagement • Planning • Decision-Making • Foster Parent • First Placement= Best Placement • Dual-Licensure • Team-Decision Making • Child-Specific • Mobility Mapping • Teachers • Coaches • Parents of Friends Preparing for Best Placement Educational Needs CHILD Mental Health Adult Relationships • Targeted • Missouri Compassion • Fostering Faithful Families • Courts • Fostering Court Improvement • Voices for Children Physical Health Peer Relationships • General Recruitment • Missouri Foster & Adoption Partnership • AdoptUsKids • Heart Gallery • A Place to Call Home

  9. Project Components Extreme Recruitment Extreme Education, Training, and Supports

  10. Placement Occurs The addition of support services, on-going relationship with a consistent worker, and the availability of services following placement and finalization increases the stability and security of placements.

  11. Inspiration I didn’t want to be adopted because I thought I was too old… Now that I visit my aunt, I can’t wait to be adopted by her! Carlos, age 15

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