During this virtual Foster Care Workgroup Meeting we learned about an exciting new “Adverse Placement tool” that gives states and localities the data they need to make more informed and results driven foster parent recruitment plans, with a special focus on recruitment to meet the needs of teens.
Noah Duncan at the University of Chicago's Center for Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC):

• shared the rationale for developing an "Adverse Placement tool";

• walked us through what the Adverse Placement analysis entails; and

• provided examples of how states have used the tool to make significant changes in their recruitment process.

The adverse placement concept includes placements in which young people are not placed with kin AND also experiencing placement in group homes, sibling separations, and placements outside of a young person's community of origin.  Results can help communities develop strategies to meet the needs of all children in foster care so they never have to experience one of these adverse placements. In addition to sharing the tool, Noah was interested in hearing ideas for making it as relevant as possible to the YTFG population of interest and feedback on ways to expand its use and application in the field. 

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