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...result has been some aggressive new strategies to recruit families, even for kids in their late teens. Televised videos like the one Amber prepared are just one of those strategies. Wednesday's Child, a nonprofit organization that places teens in Oregon and Idaho, helps create videos, which air as a weekly feature on the local news and on a website. The technique worked for Jason, 18. Jeri and George Soulier of Weiser, Idaho, saw a profile of Jason on the Wednesday's Child website last summer and quickly arranged to meet him. They have since taken him into their home...
Some agencies use special events to recruit families. In Tampa, Fla., Hillsborough Kids Inc. whipped up a week of outdoor "camp" activities that matched waiting children with families who have had approved home studies--ultimately netting homes for 14 kids, ages 4 to 15. "Chemistry is important," says Alissa Moody, who assisted with the camp. "A couple thinking of a 5-year-old may switch to a 15-year...
...What matters is who shows up in September,” Lewis said. “Our primary concern is to recruit the best students...
Though it certainly has thus far—the West Islip, N.Y., native is Harvard’s second-leading scorer with 25 points—as a recruit, Pelle worried openly that he might need to defer his admission in order to add strength and speed, else he might struggle in the transition to the collegiate level...
...partner" a Democratic firm called the Harbour Group, which charged KORUSEC $150,456 in 2002 and 2003. Lobbyist Joel Johnson--a former Clinton White House official who has since moved from Harbour to the Glover Park Group and taken the KORUSEC account with him--says he was hired "to recruit Democrats to go on trips." He insists, however, that the excursions were serious endeavors with briefings by Korean officials and a trip to the demilitarized zone. As for elevating Kim's image with the delegations, Johnson insists, "It was never the purpose ever stated to me." In the meantime, defining...