Services
Listening to Parents can provide a wide
range of services designed to make child welfare programs
more responsive to prospective adoptive parents. These
include:
Program
Evaluation
- Convening focus groups
and interviewing prospective parents to understand how
parents experience the adoption process.
- Organizing and leading
public hearings on how parents experience the adoption
process.
- Designing operational
audits for state adoption services.
- Analyzing systemic barriers to adoption.
Program Design
- Designing ways to
incorporate parent, and prospective parent, input into
adoption programs.
- Designing systems to make the adoption process more accessible and parent-friendly.
Training
- Training adoption
workers in techniques to increase retention of
prospective adoptive parents.
Systemic Change
- Consulting to Statewide Adoption Reform Task Forces.
- Working with lawmakers to develop legislation that improves adoption services.
- Consulting with parent groups and child advocates on system change.
- Policy analysis and development.
Presentations to:
- Policy makers
- Child welfare staff
- Parent Groups
- Judges