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State and Local Examples of Postadoption Service Delivery Models
Postadoption resources, including examples of postadoption programs in different States, grant reports from postadoption pilot programs, sample postgraduate adoption certificate programs, and information on evaluating postadoption services.
Examples of postadoption programs
Links to postadoption program websites throughout the country.
Adoption Knowledge Affiliates
A postadoption resource for adoption professionals and families in Texas. Resources include support and discussion groups, educational programs, and yearly conferences.
Adoptive Families Together
Services and resources offered through this network of adoptive parents include parent support groups for families in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, an online discussion group, a newsletter, a calendar of events, and other useful publications.
Alabama Post Adoption Connections
Provides educational resources and support to adoptive families in Alabama. Resources and services include information on adoption, parent support groups, postadoption training, crisis counseling, referral services, and a resource library.
Center for Adoption Support and Education
Provides postadoption counseling and educational services to families, educators, child welfare staff, and mental health providers in Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Washington, DC.
Center for Family Connections
Offers support to adoptive families, birth families, and adopted people, including therapy for individuals, couples, and families; supervised visits and visits for siblings being raised apart; support groups for adoptive families, birth families, teens; and training in Massachusetts.
Georgia Center for Resources & Support
Provides resources and services to adoptive parents to help them become successful parents. Services include family support groups and buddy programs, postadoption training, online support through bulletin boards and chat rooms, referral services, and a lending library.
Kinship Center
Provides mental health counseling and support groups for California adoptive families and birth parents as well as information on adoption mental health clinics. The center aims to build a long-term support network for families to address postadoption issues as they arise.
The Maine Post-Adoption Resource Guide
Maine Department of Human Services & Child Welfare Training Institute
List of services and information resources favored by adoptive families in Maine.
Minnesota Adoption Support and Preservation
State-funded adoption information clearinghouse that includes a training calendar for adoptive families and professionals, listings of resource directories, parent support groups, buddy and mentor programs, and parent liaisons.
New Jersey Adoption Resource Clearinghouse
State-funded service that provides support to all members of the adoption community and directs families to appropriate adoption services in New Jersey.
Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center
Information and referral service for Oregon DHS adoptive and assisted guardianship families and for Oregon families who adopted foster children from other States.
Post-Adoption Services: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Children Adopted from Foster Care (PDF - 158 KB)
North American Council on Adoptable Children (2007)
Provides information on the mental health needs of children adopted from foster care and describes mental health services that are needed and available financial assistance. State examples of effective postadoption service programs are included.
Postadoption Support Services
Michigan State University
This website serves as a resource for adoptive families living in Michigan. Services provided include a directory of support services by county, an online library, and special sections for teens and children.
Together as Adoptive Parents (TAP link)
Provides postadoption information and resources to adoptive, foster, and kinship families in Pennsylvania.
Wisconsin Post Adoption Resource Centers
Includes information on the five statewide Post Adoption Resource Centers funded by the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services to provide support services to families and professionals. Services include telephone support for families, group support sessions, library resources, postadoption training, and direct services.
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Postadoption grant reports
A selection of final reports from Adoption Opportunities grants on postadoption services from the Information Gateway library collection.
Missouri Adoption Continuum: Supporting Families From Inquiry On: Final Project Report
The Adoption Exchange (2005)
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Describes the activities and outcomes of a federally funded project designed to increase permanency through adoption by creating a continuum of care, contact, and support to Missouri families from initial inquiry through adoption and beyond.
The Permanency Project/Anoka County Community Health and Social Services
Community Health and Environmental Services Department (2003)
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Outcomes of an Adoption Opportunities demonstration grant applied to a system of services designed to increase the stability of adoptive and kinship families in Minnesota.
Post-Legal Adoption Services: Final Evaluation Report (pro-gen)
Ennis Center for Children, Inc. (2001)
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Outlines the accomplishments of a program designed to prevent the dissolution of adoptions in Wayne County, Michigan.
Post Legal Adoption Services Targeting Single Mothers of Children With Special Needs: October 1, 1998 to September 30, 2001: Final Report
Institute for Black Parenting (2002)
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Reports on the activities and outcomes of a federally funded project designed to address the needs of adoptive single parents and provide technical assistance and training for child welfare professionals and two adoptive parent organizations.
Post-Legal Adoption Services to Strengthen and Preserve Adoptive Families
Vermont State Agency of Human Services (2001)
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Describes a pilot program developed by a consortium in Vermont to improve the availability of consistent, preventive, therapeutic, and educational postadoption services for adoptive families.
Post-Legal Adoption Services Together Program
Village for Families and Children, Inc. (2002)
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Describes the activities funded by an Adoption Opportunities grant to support adoptive families and increase awareness of the needs of waiting children in Connecticut. Services to families included crisis intervention, educational workshops, support groups facilitated by a social worker, and a directory of community resources for adoptive families.
Responding to Adoptive Parents' Needs - The Oregon Model for Post Adoption Service
Hutchison
Bridges, 2007
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Describes the development of the Oregon Post Adoption Resource Center (ORPARC), a public-private collaboration that provides services to strengthen and sustain families who adopted children form the Oregon child welfare system.
San Diego Youth and Community Services Post-Legal Adoption Support Program
San Diego Youth and Community Services (2002)
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Presents outcomes of a demonstration project developed to help adoptive families integrate children with special needs into their family. Services included in-home case management, biweekly groups for parents and children, a monthly newsletter, recreational activities, and tutors and mentors for the child.
Strengthening and Preserving Adoptive Families: A Study of TANF-Funded Post Adoption Services in New York State (PDF - 400 KB)
Avery (2004)
Results of an evaluation of postadoption services provided to families eligible to participate in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in New York State.
Supporting Adoptions and Guardianships in Illinois: An Analysis of Subsidies, Services, and Spending (PDF - 8532 KB)
Children and Family Research Center (2006)
Presents results from a 2005 study examining postadoption services in Illinois.
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Examples of postgraduate adoption certificate programs
Examples of programs offered by universities or agencies that provide a specialized certification for social workers and other related professionals that qualifies them to address adoption issues.
Kinship Center
Provides clinical training for professionals, including an 8-day curriculum that covers a wide variety of clinical issues in adoption, permanency, and kinship care.
Therapy With Adoptive Families: A Post-Graduate Training Certificate
Portland State University
Provides training to mental health professionals that combines online tools and resources with face-to-face instruction. Instructors are national, regional, and local experts in the field of adoption therapy.
New Jersey Adoption Certificate Program Description (PDF - 114 KB)
Rutgers University School of Social Work
Focuses on increasing the knowledge of mental health practitioners regarding the core issues of adoption and helps them enhance their skills in attachment-based, family-focused, therapeutic interventions.
Post Graduate Certificate Program in Adoption Therapy
Hunter College School of Social Work, City University of New York
Provides non-credit-bearing advanced education and training for mental health professionals, particularly those working to promote adoption from public foster care, in specialized theories and practices for working with all members of the adoptive triad, including birth mothers and fathers, adoptive mothers and fathers, and the adopted person.
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Evaluation of postadoption services
Resources to help professionals evaluate postadoption services.
Evaluation Toolkit
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Helpful tools for selecting an evaluation approach, developing evaluation questions, planning, budgeting, and hiring evaluators.
Steps in Evaluating Programs
Child Welfare Information Gateway
An outline of the five key steps in evaluating a child abuse prevention program.
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