Selected Resources

Dollars and Sense: A Guide to Achieving Adoptions Through Public-Private Contracting (PDF – 762 KB)
AdoptUsKids (2007)
Designed to provide public and private agency program managers, supervisors, and contract managers with information to facilitate the purchase of interjurisdictional adoption services.

Using Private Contracts to Create Adoptions from Foster Care (PDF – 187 KB)
Hansen (2007)
Explores how the organization of the delivery of social services to waiting children and prospective adoptive families influences adoptive placements.