The competency-based training will increase the ability of an organization’s staff members to understand LGBTQ+ clients and will include issues of cultural identity, family formation and development, family law and…
Parent preparation training delivered by or required by agencies should include LGBTQ-headed families as examples throughout the training, just as they include examples of other types of prospective families, such…
Inclusive language in agency forms required of clients reflects all potential applicants and contributes to an agency’s welcoming environment for LGBTQ+ clients.
LGBTQ-headed adoptive and foster families, like other adoptive and foster families, need support, counsel, and nurturance into the future. Through their own work or by connecting families with external services,…
The All Children - All Families Agency Self-Assessment allows an organization to understand and document its level of cultural competence in welcoming LGBTQ-headed families in its current practice. Upon completion,…
The HRC Foundation will provide the All Children – All Families Seal of Recognition to agencies that achieve these 10 benchmarks. Once you earn the All Children– All Families Seal,…
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…
Online learning from HRC's All Children - All Families program; moving child welfare systems forward to achieve full LGBTQ+ inclusion.
Staff advocates serve as an essential resource to LGBTQ clients who can face barriers and challenges due to their sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression.
An agency that is welcoming and affirming of LGBTQ clients within its policies and practices should specifically target multiple LGBTQ communities in all of its efforts to reach and recruit…