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Permanency for Children With Disabilities
Information and resources to help achieve permanency for children with disabilities and children living in congregate or residential care, including State and local examples.
Helping Families Raise Children With Special Health Care Needs at Home
Johnson & Kastner
Pediatrics, 115(2), 2005
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Seeks to educate physicians on the importance of a permanent family environment for all children, including those with special health-care needs, and the need for adequate and accessible community services to support and maintain the well-being of all family members.
Impact of Disability on Case Planning for Young Children in Foster Care
Bruhn (2003)
In Fellowships for Doctoral Candidates and Faculty for Investigator-initiated Research in Child Abuse and Neglect Final Report
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Reports thePreliminary results of a study that compared case planning for foster children with and without disabilities.
Permanency Planning for Adolescents with Disabilities
Pineles
ABA Child Law Practice, 24(8), 2005
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Assists advocates with permanency planning for adolescents with disabilities and discusses practice guidelines.
Permanency Planning for Deaf Children: Considerations of Culture and Language
White
Arete, 21(2) 1997
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Describes two opposing paradigms of deafness and their impact on permanency planning for deaf children.
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State and local examples
A Family to Family Model: Concurrent Kinship and Foster to Adopt Family Plan for Special Needs Children (Two Ways Home): Final Report
Sanders (2004)
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Activities and outcomes of Two Ways Home, a 3-year federally-funded, community-based pilot . Goals were to increase and expedite the placement and subsequent adoption of children with special needs in a relative's home and to develop a concurrent alternative plan for children for whom no relatives were identified and no permanent home was found .
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