Guides & Resources for Social Workers

The following is a list of guides and key resources for social workers when using MARE services. To view any of the following files, you will need Acrobat Reader.

• Child Registration Form

• Photo Guidelines: Tips on getting the best photos for a child’s photolisting and media recruitment

• Family Registration Form

• MARE’s Adoption Party Guide for Social Workers: MARE has created this guide to help social workers prepare children and families for adoption parties.

• Preparing Children for Media: This is a summary of suggestions that social workers can utilize to prepare waiting children for media recruitment.

• MARE Online Matching FAQs: A description of the MARE Online Matching program, who can use              it, and how families and social workers can best make use of it.

• Preparing Children & Teens for Recruitment – MARE’s Step-By-Step Guide: MARE has written this guide to assist social workers in preparing children and teens for adoption recruitment in general and for using MARE’s adoption recruitment services specifically.

• Adoptuskids: This is the national website, where children and families from across the country are registered and photolisted.   

• Robbie Rabbit™ Books: Written by a former foster child, the Robbie Rabbit™ series is specifically for child welfare professionals as well as foster and adoptive parents who want to help a foster and/or adoption-eligible child adjust better to tough changes in life. If you order a Robbie Rabbit™ book and enter the code MAREPP during checkout, MARE will receive proceeds from each transaction!

• Events: The Events section of the website contains adoption-related events that are sponsored by MARE and other agencies.