Research released this week will forever change how The Dave Thomas Foundation does business: as a Foundation, as partners with Wendy’s and as the organization overseeing agencies charged with finding adoptive parents for children who wait.
They have learned, after five years of rigorous, evidence-based evaluation and research that the child-focused recruitment model works. That model is Wendy’s Wonderful Kids.
Here are some of the top line results:
- Children in foster care served by the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids recruitment program are 1.7 times more likely to be adopted than those not served by WWK.
- The impact of WWK’s child-focused recruitment model is greatest among children who are older or those who have mental health disorders in fact, three times more likely for both populations.
- These findings upend the belief that some children are “unadoptable.” In fact, with more focus on evidence-based innovative strategies like WWK, rather than a reliance on traditional services, there is hope for every child in foster care.
Please take a moment to visit their website at http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/ and view the video created specifically for this momentous announcement and for a deeper understanding, please read the Wendy’s Wonderful Kids National Release Executive Summary. Below are the links for each of them.
(Don't forget to mute the blog music on the bottom of this page before viewing the following video. You can also view it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=aLP3pAfCHgo)
http://www.davethomasfoundation.org/executive-summary/
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