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Preparing Foster/Adoptive Parents
Resources for professionals working with resource families (foster, adoptive, and kinship) to help prepare them for becoming adoptive parents, including State and local examples.
- Adoption home study/family assessment
- Transitioning foster parents to adoptive parents
- Training adoptive parents
- Adoption assistance
Family Assessment and Preparation
National Resource Center for Adoption
In Adoption Competency Curriculum: Trainer's Guide
Includes trainer preparation materials for a module that builds participants skills in the family identification, preparation and assessment process. This module also addresses how to prepare current foster parents or relatives to transition from fostering to adopting. Also available: Participant's Handbook
Ongoing Connections: Parenting Curriculum Trainer's Guide (PDF - 1444 KB)
Sturgeon (2007)
Designed to prepare prospective adoptive parents interested in offering a permanent family to older youth in the foster care system. It will assist them in exploring the importance of permanence for the youth as well as the benefits gained when the youth maintain connections with significant people from their past after they join a family.
| The Basics of Adoption Practice | |
| Series Title: | Bulletins for Professionals |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 307KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2006 - 13 pages |
| Adoption is a highly specialized field that focuses on placing children with families and providing services to ensure that these placements are permanent. In recent decades, the emphasis of adoption practice has shifted from helping families find children to finding safe and permanent families for children. Adoption workers are now expected to have extensive knowledge and understanding of the recruitment and assessment of adoptive families, the placement of children with a variety of strengths and needs, and supportive postadoption services to promote attachment and permanency for children. This bulletin provides an overview of the basics of adoption practice and the ... | |
Factors Contributing to Parents' Preparation for Special-Needs Adoption
Egbert & LaMont
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21(6), 2004
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Study that found parents' perceived level of preparation was predicted by the child's ability to attach, the parents' relationship with the agency, the duration of the adoption, and the parents' ages at the time of adoption.
| Impact of Adoption on Adoptive Parents | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway. |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 401KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2010 - 14 pages |
| This factsheet explores some of the emotional ups and downs that adoptive parents may experience as they approach the decision to adopt, during the adoptive process, and after the adoption. It explores some stresses that adoptive parents may experience, including depression, issues related to identity and attachment, and issues related to the child's adjustment, such as contact with the birth family. Useful resources and suggestions for finding help are included. | |
The Roundtable
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Adoption
Journal addressing policy and practice issues of interest to adoption practitioners and administrators.
State and local examples
2003 Adoptive Placements for Children in Foster Care Grantee Cluster: Synthesis of Evaluation Findings (Word – 892 KB)
Children's Bureau (2010)
Summarizes the activities and results of eight State human services agencies that received Federal grants designed to promote the elimination of administrative, court-related, and service barriers to the adoption of special-needs children.
New York City Foster Parent's Guide to Adoption (PDF - 838 KB)
Welfare Research, Inc. & New York State Office of Children & Family Services (2007)
This guide is designed to help foster parents understand the adoption process and take an active role in the adoption of their foster children.