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Targeted
Recruitment
Strategies
Denise A. Goodman, PhD, ACSW, LISW
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AGENDA
• Overview of Recruitment
• Critical Components of
Targeted Recruitment
• Types of Targeted Recruitment
• Getting Started…
• Practice!
• Question and Answers
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Three Kinds of Recruitment
General
Targeted
Child Specific
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General Recruitment Tips
1. Use “REAL” kids in media
2. Materials must be user-friendly
3. Simple, clean design is best!
4. Honesty in messaging
5. Eye catching and snazzy
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Critical Components of
Targeted Recruitment
•Specificity
•Variety of Strategies
•Personal Touch-Face Time
•Relationships •Local Champions
•Identification of Community Resources
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Critical Components of
Targeted Recruitment
Tangible Goals
Follow-up contacts
Details, Details
Use Teens/Resource Parents
Network
Accurate Budget
Know what you want
But listen and be flexible
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Types of “Targets”
•Child Characteristics
•Race, Color or National Origin
•Geographic Location
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Child Characteristics
•DATA IS YOUR FRIEND!!!
•WHO are the kids?
Examples: teens, siblings, medically
fragile, teen mothers, children with
mental health issues
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Race, Color or National Origin
•impact disproportionality
•culturally appropriate slogans and logos
•recognize cultural/racial issues
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Geographic Location
TWO questions:
1. Where do the kids come from?
2. Where are our families?
Identify Key Leaders in the community
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What strategies can we use to
engage the targeted families in
the community? How can we
deliver the message to them?
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Targeted
Recruitment Plan
Strategic
Orientation
Strategic
Preservice Training
= TOTAL
PACKAGE
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Targeted Recruitment
CHILD
CHARACTERISTICS
CHILD’S
NEIGHBORHOOD
--East Baltimore
--School District
--Teens
--Medically fragile
--African-African
--Native Alaska
RACE, COLOR,
NATIONAL ORIGIN
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Some Questions…….
1. Identify targeted group-be specific
2. Who are people already providing care
for these children?
3. Where can we find more of them?
4. How can we get the word to them?
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Step by Step Guide
Target Group: Boys ages 6-12
FP Focus Group Results:
•have parented boys, like boys
•involved in scouting, camping, outdoors
•involved in sports, like sports
•busy, active families-on the go
Data review told us: single men/women, married
ages 29-67, at least 1 child, HS diploma, working
class
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Who in the community is already
connected or supporting boys
ages 6-12?
Where can we locate more of
these families in the community?
Craft Message/Design Logo
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Target Audience Strategy
Little League Coaches •speak at coaches’ meeting
•mail letter to each coach
Little League Families •put posters up in snack shack
•put advertisement in Little League
annual program
•purchase snack bags/napkins with
logo/slogan for snack shack
•attend opening day and put flyers
on cars
Elementary/Middle
School Teachers
•speak at inservice day
•posters/flyers in lounge w/data
•paycheck stuffers
Cub Scout/Boy Scout
Leaders
•article in “Scouting News”
•meet with local leaders
•assist with service project/badges
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THE Is it GENERAL or
TARGETED??? GAME
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PSA’s on the TV or Radio Speaking Engagement to
High School Teachers
Billboards and bus signs
Co-hosting an informational
session with a neighborhood
organization at their site newspaper articles
in local paper about
need for homes for siblings
recruitment blitz in the whole county on a selected day
sending materials out to every church in the county
meeting with football coaches
Speaking at the Rotary meeting
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Presentation at PTA
sitting at a table or booth at the mall
article in the pediatric nurses newsletter
Brown bag lunch for juvenile probation officers
fosterware party hosted by Spanish speaking foster parent
passing out balloons at the county fair
Advertisements in local newspapers
slide show at movies theaters
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QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS