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Post-Adoption Information
Resources for professionals to share with families to promote the stability of adoptive placements and reduce the likelihood of adoption disruption or dissolution.
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Adoption Assistance for Children Adopted From Foster Care: A Factsheet for Families
In every State there are children with special needs waiting in foster care for adoptive families. The most recent data estimate that 126,000 children are available to be adopted from foster care. In the past, the costs of care and services were major obstacles to parents who would otherwise adopt and love these children, and most were not placed for adoption. The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 provided the first Federal subsidies to encourage the adoption of children from the nation's foster care system. These subsidies, known as adoption assistance, serve to minimize the financial obstacles to ...
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Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Service: Family Needs, Program Models, and Evaluation Issues
Literature review regarding post-adoption services, including examples of such services.
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The Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice:
The Casey Center for Effective Child Welfare Practice has published three Strengthening Families and Communities white papers that highlight key aspects of post-adoption service needs: An Approach to Post-Adoption Services, Promising Practices in Adoption-Competent Mental Health Services, and Creative Strategies for Financing Post-Adoption Services. Together these papers provide a road map for states interested in establishing program and budget priorities to fund comprehensive post-adoption services and strategies with a blend of state and federal dollars that are currently available to support these urgently needed services.
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Concept Model for Post-Adoption Services
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the National Consortium for Post Legal Adoption Services, a coalition of child welfare agencies and mental health providers in Michigan, Arizona, Illinois, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin, received an Adoption Opportunities grant to create a "concept model of post adoption services." This diagram is a model of the guiding principles of adoption support and preservation and the characteristics and outcomes of post-adoption services.
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Culture and Heritage Events
Search for adoption-related events and camps by ethnicity or culture on the Adoptive Families Magazine website.
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Disruption and Dissolution
This factsheet reports statistics about adoption disruption (before finalization of the placement) and dissolution (after legal finalization). Differences in disruption rates by age of the child and placement history are noted.
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Employer-Provided Adoption Benefits
This fact sheet explains the types of employee and tax benefits that are available to adoptive parents, from financial assistance and parental leave to tax credits for adoption expenses. Eligibility for such benefits is briefly discussed, and resources about employers offering adoption benefits are provided.
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Family Medical Leave Act Information
Information from the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Legal Considerations for Adoptive Parents
Information on State laws related to collection of information on adopted children, access to adoption records, adoption subsidy, and other adoption-related topics.
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Lifelong Issues in Adoption
Discusses how adoption is a lifelong, intergenerational process that unites the triad of birth families, adoptees, and adoptive families.
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Military Families and Adoption: A Bulletin for Professionals
This bulletin explains the benefits of using military families as adoptive resources for children. It discusses the challenges in working with military families, ways these challenges have been overcome, and provides a list of resources and organizations that support families in their adoption pursuits.
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NACAC's Adoption Subsidy Resource Center
The National Adoption Subsidy Resource Center was formed to help educate parents and professionals on Title IV-E Adoption Assistance.
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National Adoption Organizations that Provide Support to Adopted Persons, Adoptive Parents, and Families
This resource listing provides the addresses and phone numbers of selected organizations that provide support to adoptees, adoptive parents, and other family members touched by adoption. Each entry includes a brief description of the function of the organization and e-mail and web addresses when available.
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Parenting Your Adoptive Child: Birth to Adulthood
Information on parenting adopted children at different ages, including resources on parenting children who are members of sibling groups, those adopted as older children, and those who are members of minority groups.
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Post-Permanency Services
Overview of what happens to children and youth after they have achieved their permanency plans.
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Relationship Between Post-Adoption Services and Adoption Outcomes
Children's Bureau Express article on a study that found on a significant relationship between post-adoption service utilization and positive adoption outcomes.
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Respite Care Services for Families Who Adopt Children with Special Needs: A Synthesis of Demonstration Program Final Reports
This report synthesizes information from the final program and evaluation reports of 8 Adoption Opportunities discretionary grants programs written between 1994 and 1999. It summarizes project descriptions, lessons learned, accomplishments, and recommendations. An appendix includes project information for each of the 8 projects, including contact information, area served, target population, and evaluation activities.
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Searching for Birth Relatives
The basics on how to conduct a search for birth relatives, both within the United States and internationally, and a listing of search support groups for people searching for birth relatives.
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State Child Welfare Agency and Photolisting Webpages
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National Adoption Information Clearinghouse (DHHS)
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2002 - 6 pages |
This resource listing provides website addresses for State child welfare agencies and webpage links to information regarding adoption, foster care, adoption exchange, and photo listing services. All 50 States and the District of Columbia are included.
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Strengthening and Preserving Adoptive Families: A Study of TANF-Funded Post Adoption Services in New York State (PDF 400 KB)
This study reports on over 1,000 families who received post-adoption services from 13 New York State agencies and includes results from a parent satisfaction survey.
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Strengthening Families and Communities: An Approach to Post-Adoption Services: A White Paper (PDF 562 KB)
A 2002 Casey Family Services technical report.
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Understanding Potential Challenges
Resources to guide adoptive parents in helping children face challenges specific to events in their history, such as child abuse and neglect, multiple placements, prenatal substance abuse, or developmental and physical disabilities.
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