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Description: Contains information on all aspects of adoption including strategies for coping, laws and policies, special conditions and information for parents raising adoptive children and teenagers. Available in English and Spanish.
Beleaguered Families:Identity Ascription and the Politics of Adoption
Author: Jaquez, Sean
Description: This document is a commentary on a panel discussion by Richard Banks and Joan Hollinger. It discusses the politics and general views on adoption.
Description: The Casey Family Programs site contains information of general interest about foster care, adoption, and kinship care, and addresses the development and support of a sufficient pool of competent resource families to provide children and youths with safety, protection, stability and permanency.
Description: Children's Bureau Express is designed for professionals concerned with child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
Description: In June 2003, The Pew Charitable Trusts initiated support for the Children and Family Research Center at the School of Social Work, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign through a grant to the University of Illinois Foundation to launch a public education and outreach campaign called Fostering Results. The campaign works at the national level and in selected states to highlight the need to address the federal financing mechanisms that favor foster care over other services and options for children and families and to improve court oversight of child welfare cases. Fostering Results engages influential national and local leaders, including judges, child welfare directors and caseworkers, and advocates for youth and for foster, birth and adoptive families, using media, reports and meetings to call attention to financing and court issues.
Issues In Transracial Adoption
Author: McManus, Maureen
Description: This article discusses many issues of transracial adoption including: what transracial adoption is, what proponents and opponents say about it, and what laws govern transracial adoption.
Respite as a Support Service for Adoptive Families
Author: Goldsmith, Brenda
Description: Highlights eight core issues affecting all adoptive families. Presents information to help respite programs address the unique needs of children who are adopted, their adoptive families, and respite workers serving this population.
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Grandfacts: State Fact Sheets for Grandparents and Other Relatives Raising Children
Description: These fact sheets include: Census data on the number of grandparent caregivers and the children they are raising, a list of local programs, resources and services, State foster care policies for kinship (grandparent and other relative) caregivers, Information about key public benefit programs, important state laws, and national organizations that may be of help.
The Story of the Children’s Bureau
Description: This brochure provides an overview of the research and data collection, public awareness campaigns, and leadership development of the Children’s Bureau, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
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Description: Comprehensive list of resources on adoption, including single-parent and special needs children adoptions, policies and online resources.
Description: Contains information on all aspects of adoption including strategies for coping, laws and policies, special conditions and information for parents raising adoptive children and teenagers. Available in English and Spanish.
Description: The mission of AdoptUsKids is to recruit and connect foster and adoptive families with waiting children throughout the United States. Provides resources and links to other information about adoption.
Description: The mission of AdoptUsKids is to recruit and connect foster and adoptive families with waiting children throughout the United States. Provides resources and links to other information about adoption.
Answering the Call: National Adoption Month
Description: November is National Adoption Month, a month set aside to raise awareness about the adoption of children and youth from foster care. This year's theme of adopting teens from foster care builds on the Ad Council's new public service announcement (PSA) campaign of the Children's Bureau, the Adoption Exchange Association, and The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids.
Description: The Casey Family Programs site contains information of general interest about foster care, adoption, and kinship care, and addresses the development and support of a sufficient pool of competent resource families to provide children and youths with safety, protection, stability and permanency.
Description: This website provides information and resources about adoption.
Description: Children's Bureau Express is designed for professionals concerned with child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
Description: FIRST PERSON PLURAL is a personal documentary that explores themes of family, loss, and the reconciling of two identities. Nominated for an Emmy Award, the film follows the story of an 8-year old Korean orphan who was adopted by an American family, only to discover years later that her identity had been switched and she had a birth family in Korea.
Fostering Perspectives Newsletter
Description: Fostering Perspectives is sponsored by the N.C. Division of Social Services, the N.C. Foster Parents Association, and SaySo (Strong Able Youth Speaking Out) and produced by the Family and Children's Resource Program, part of the Jordan Institute for Families at the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work. These organizations contribute to the development and production of each newsletter issue in an effort to improve the quality of foster care in North Carolina.
Presenting a Positive View of Adoption, Part 1 
Author: Blockman, Rita (1 more by this author)
Description: This newsletter article provides information and suggestions for child caregivers who care for children who have been adopted.
Presenting a Positive View of Adoption, Part 2
Author: Blockman, Rita (1 more by this author)
Description: This newsletter article is the second of a two-part series discussing issues that arise when adopted children are enrolled in child care programs. This article focuses on ensuring that activities and projects are sensitive to and reflective of the adopted child's experience. The author also includes a list of children's books as well as adult reference books related to adoption.
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Description: This study addresses crucial program, practice, and policy issues in the areas of dynamics of the child welfare system, and outcomes for children and families. It describes the children and families who come into contact with the child welfare system, and examine child and family risk factors, service needs, and services received, and examines outcomes for children and families to describe the interaction of the child welfare system and services with other service systems.
Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005
Description: This document provides information on a variety of child welfare topics, including: child safety, homes for foster children, adoption, and placement settings in foster care.
Increasing Knowledge About Foster Care Adoption: Barriers and Potential Solutions
Description: This research surveyed adults to discover their knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions about adoption. The results are presented here and focus on knowledge about foster care adoptions and concludes with
recommendations for more targeted recruitment efforts.