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Postadoption Services | |
Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
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Year Published: | 2005 - 14 pages |
All adopted children and their families can potentially benefit from services provided after the adoption is finalized. These services may include educational and informational services, clinical services, material services, and/or support services. This bulletin addresses: who benefits from postadoption services, how can postadoption services help, what postadoptive services do families need, what postadoptive services do States offer, how are postadoption services delivered, how are postadoption services funded, why evaluate postadoption services, what are the implications for practice, and what future research is needed This bulletin specifically focuses on the benefits for adopted people and adoptive parents. Includes resources. |
Postadoption Services | |
Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
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Year Published: | 2006 - 10 pages |
It is common for adoptive families to need support and services after adoption. Postadoption services can help families with a wide range of issues. They are available for everything from learning how to explain adoption to a preschooler, to helping a child who experienced early childhood abuse, to helping with an adopted teen?s search for identity. Experience with adoptive families has shown that all family members can benefit from some type of postadoption support. Families of children who have experienced trauma, neglect, or institutionalization may require more intensive services. |
Post-Legal Adoption Services For Children with Special Needs and Their Families : Challenges and Lessons Learned | |
Series Title: | Grantee Lessons Learned |
Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
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Year Published: | 2005 - 15 pages |
With the goal of expanding and enhancing services to adoptive families of children with special needs, post-legal adoption services have been established in annual adoption discretionary grant announcements. Under that priority area in 1998, 15 3-year grants were awarded to increase permanency and well-being for children with special needs by preventing adoption disruption, dissolution, or out-of-home placement. This briefing paper synthesizes the final reports of those 15 projects. The projects targeted post-legal adoptive families and their children with special needs, pre-adoptive families, single adoptive parents, transracial adoptive families, kinship families. Core services included parent support and educational groups, children s ... |
El Proceso de Estudio de Hogar para la Adopción (The Adoption Home Study Process) | |
Series Title: | Hojas Informativas Para las Familias (Factsheets for Families) |
Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
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Year Published: | 2011 - 10 pages |
This fact sheet describes the types of information that will be collected from prospective adoptive parents during the home study process. The following elements are addressed: autobiographical statement, health statement, income statement, child abuse and criminal clearances, and references. Tips for the interview and home visit also are provided. Esta hoja enumera los elementos del estudio socioeconómico al que deben acceder los posibles padres adoptivos. Están incluidas las siguientes secciones: Elementos del estudio del proceso del hogar; el informe del estudio de hogar; y preocupaciones comunes sobre el estudio de hogar. También contiene una sección con preguntas y respuestas. |
Providing Background Information to Adoptive Parents | |
Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
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Year Published: | 2003 - 8 pages |
This bulletin explains the importance of providing background information about a child to prospective adoptive parents so that they can be prepared to address the child's emotional, health, and behavioral needs. The briefing describes the liability of agencies in cases of wrongful adoption and identifies the types of information that families should receive. Issues regarding sensitive information and right to privacy also are discussed. |
Replanteamiento de las Practicas de Bienestar Infantil Según la Ley ASFA de 1997 (Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997): Guía de Recursos | |
Author(s): | Children's Bureau (HHS) |
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Year Published: | 2000 - 66 pages |
Las provisiones de la ley ASFA (Adoption and Safe Families Act) con el intento de promover la seguridad, permanencia, y bienestar de niños tendrá un impacto significante en las practicas del bienestar infantil. ASFA requiere a las agencias del bienestar infantil a que los padres se dediquen tempranamente en el proceso, rediseñen la entrega de servicios para lograr las metas de permanencia para niños, asegurar recursos suficientes para familias, y que trabajen juntamente con las cortes. Esta guía proporciona un marco para diseñar la practica del bienestar de niños. Incluye un análisis de las provisiones claves del ASFA y identifica ... |
A Report to Congress on Barriers and Success Factors in Adoptions from Foster Care: Perspectives of Families and Staff Supported by the Adoption Opportunities Program | |
Author(s): | United States Children's Bureau. |
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Year Published: | 2007 - 135 pages |
This report to Congress outlines the findings of two adoption-research studies conducted as part of The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids. In the first study, a nationwide purposive sample of 300 families seeking to adopt children with special needs from the public child welfare system was selected, interviewed, and surveyed to determine actual and potential barriers to the completion of the adoption process. In addition, a nationwide sample of 382 private -- and public-agency adoption staff members were surveyed to assess their opinions regarding barriers to the adoption process. This first study is referred to as the "Barriers" study in this report. ... |
A Report to Congress on Interjurisdictional Adoption of Children in Foster Care. | |
Author(s): | Children's Bureau |
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Year Published: | 2006 - 61 pages |
In response to a legislative requirement under the Keeping Children and Families Safe Act, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conducted a survey of all States and territories to identify promising practices and possible strategies to overcome barriers to interjurisdictional placements. The survey was the first comprehensive compilation of current, promising strategies, and supports required to improve the interjurisdictional placement process for children in the child welfare system. This report provides background information on children in foster care, especially those for whom interjurisdictional adoptive placements are viable options, and describes key steps in the process to achieve permanent ... |
Respite Care Services for Families Who Adopt Children with Special Needs: Synthesis of Demonstration Program Final Reports | |
Series Title: | Grantee Lessons Learned |
Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
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Year Published: | 2002 - 10 pages |
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. |
The Rights of Unmarried Fathers | |
Series Title: | State Statutes |
Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
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Year Published: | 2010 - 104 pages |
Reviews the State laws related to unmarried fathers and explains the circumstances in which a man may be presumed to be the father of a child, paternity registries, alternate means for establishing paternity, revocations of claims, and access to information. Summaries of laws for all States and U.S. territories are accessible through the State Statute Search. |
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