Icebreakers

Icebreaker is a facilitated conversation that brings together caregivers and parents to focus on the individual needs and well-being of the child in their care when a child is placed into foster care.

In the attached flyer below you will learn:

• What is an Icebreaker?
• Why it is important to participate in the Icebreaker?
• What is my role as a caregiver?
• How can we have a productive Icebreaker?

After you participate in an Icebreaker DCF has prepared a survey to help receive feedback.

Safe Sleep

Continued and updated information about Safe Sleep for Infants can be found at the State and National Organization links below.

• Safe to Sleep: Helping to Reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and other sleep-related infant deaths
• KIDS: Kansas Infant Death and SIDS Network
• Safe Sleep Kansas: Kansas Department of Health & Environment

Diligent Recruitment

As members of the Diligent Recruitment Advisory Council, we are proud to partner with the Kansas Department for Children and Families, Adopt Kansas Kids, the Kansas Post-Adoption Resource Center, and CPA’s across Kansas, to develop and implement the Kansas Diligent Recruitment Plan. The Diligent Recruitment Plan is a comprehensive strategy that outlines statewide collaboration and strategies to recruit, develop, support, and engage potential foster and adoptive families for children in foster care.

Learn more about the Kansas Diligent Recruitment Plan