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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.
The Basics of Adoption Practice
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 ...
Dual Licensure of Foster and Adoptive Families: Evolving Best Practices (PDF - 649 KB)
Casey Family Programs (2000)
Describes practices for dual licensure of adoptive and foster parents.
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.
The Roundtable
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Adoption
Journal addressing policy and practice issues of interest to adoption practitioners and administrators.
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State and local examples
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.
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