| State |
Grantee Information |
Collaboration Partners |
Target Populations |
Primary Goal |
| Arizona |
Adoption Network
A Community of Resources(ANCOR)
Arizona Children's Association
P.O. Box 7277
Tucson, AZ 85725
Marcie Velen
520.622.7611 ext. 1331
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- Representatives of public and private agencies in catchment area served on ANCOR steering committee
- People in key positions within key organizations agreed to collaborate, consult, and disseminate information
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- Post-legal adoptive families whose children have special needs
- Service providers for adoption training
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To increase the availability of comprehensive, stability enhancing post-adoption services for adoptive families with special needs children by building on existing resources
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| California |
Post Legal Adoption Services Targeting Single Mothers of Children with Special Needs
Institute for Black Parenting
1299 East Artesia Boulevard
Carson, CA 90746
Cynthia Willard
310.900.0939 ext. 212
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- Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
- Room for One More and Black Linkage for Adoptive children (BLAC), adoptive parent organizations that target African American adoptive families
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- Adoptive families, primarily single mothers, and their adopted children ages 6 and older
- Service providers for adoption training
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To increase and sustain the adoption of African American children
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| California |
Post-Legal Adoption Support Program, Family and Friends Adoptive Network (FFAN)
San Diego Youth and Community Services
3255 Wing Street
San Diego, CA 92110
Ilene Tibbits
619.221.8610 ext. 240
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- MOSAIC: providers and people within the African American community
- Heartbeat Family Partners: parents and professionals who advocate for families of children with special needs
- Special Kids in Families Forever (SKIFF): community members working to recruit African American adoptive parents
- University of San Diego Patient Advocacy: attorneys and child advocates who provide support, information, and school advocacy for parents of children with special needs
- San Diego Unified School District Ombudsman: provides information to parents on the educational rights of children
- Multiple additional agencies and community-based organizations
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Adoptive parents of children with special needs, ages 0 to 12, including older children, children of color, and children with physical, mental health, and/or emotional issues
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To create a formal system of post-legal adoption services designed to support and strengthen the family
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| California |
Adoptive Family Therapeutic and Educational Resources (AFTER)
The Kinship Center
115 East Gish Road, Suite 246
San Jose, CA
Graham Wright
408.573.8222
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- Four county departments of social services
- Future Families, Inc. and Kinship Center: special needs adoption agencies
- Child Advocates: a court-appointed advocacy group
- FAIR: a parent-led adoptive family support group
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- Adoptive families and their children with special needs
- Service providers for adoption training
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- To strengthen and preserve adoptive families of children with special needs and/or developmental disabilities
- To assist foster families with children with special needs to make the transition to adoption
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| California |
Partnership for Strengthening Identity
Pact, An Adoption Alliance
3220 Blume Drive, Suite 289
Richmond, CA 94806
Beth Hall & Gail Steinberg
510.243.9460
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- Adoptive Families of America
- Perspectives Press
- Multicultural Literature Program, San Francisco University
- Local PBS station
- Women's Media Alliance
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Adopted children of color and their families nationwide
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To help adoptive families and parent groups to strengthen the identity of transracially adopted children
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| Connecticut |
The Post-Legal Adoption Services Program
Department of Children and Families
505 Hudson Street
Hartford, CT 06106
Dereth McGann
860.550.6350
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- Department of Children and Families
- Connecticut Association of Foster and Adoptive Parents
- Casey Family Services
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- Pre- and post-legal adoptive parents and their children with special needs
- Service providers for adoption training
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To increase permanency for Connecticut's children by providing intensive support services to families who have adopted children with special needs or families in the process of adopting children with special needs
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| Connecticut |
Post-legal Adoption Services Together (PAST)
The Village for Families and Children, Inc.
Adoption Services
43 Woodland Street
Suite 140
Hartford, CT 06105
Janet L. Jackson
860.297.0581
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A number of statewide collaborations were established, especially with the Statewide Collaboration for Adoption and Foster Care Awareness, a group of agencies and organizations focusing on the issues of adoption and foster care.
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- Pre- and post-legal adoptive families and their children
- Service providers for adoption training
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- To support adoptive families and encourage a lifelong relationship with the agency of adoption
- To raise awareness, develop skills, and increase expertise among professionals who serve adoptive families
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| Massachusetts |
Pathways to Adoption
Catholic Charities
439 So. Union Street
Heritage Place
Lawrence, MA 01843
Susan Parker Norton
978.685.5930 ext. 229
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- Adoptive Families Together (AFT): parent-led organization of support groups
- Adoption Crossroads: Catholic Charities-subcontracted statewide post-adoption program
- Grandparents as Parents (GAP): a Catholic Charities-sponsored program for kinship caregivers
- Early Intervention
- Head Start
- Private contractors who led parent groups
- Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children's Kidsnet Program
- Adoption Crossroads: a post-adoption program
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- Pre- and post-legal adoptive families and their children
- Service providers for adoption training
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To provide prevention services to help reduce family stress and therefore reduce disruptions of adoptive placements, ultimately resulting in increased permanency for children
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| Michigan |
Adoption Opportunities Grant
Ennis Center for Children, Inc.
2051 Rosa Park Boulevard
Detroit, MI 48216
Gary Wend
313.963.7400
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- Public child-serving agencies
- Foster/Adoptive Parent Association
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- Relative adoptive parents
- Foster/adoptive parents and their children
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To provide foster and relative adoptive parents with skills needed to access community services, help them gain self-confidence through support groups, and provide direct services with the goal of maintaining family stability
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| New York |
Forever Families/Familias Para Siempre Program
New York Council on Adoptable Children (COAC)
589 8th Avenue, 15th Floor
New York, NY 10018
Barbara Rincon
212.714.2788
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- NYC Administration for Children's Services adoption department and subsidy unit
- Existing adoptive parent support groups
- Other child-serving agencies
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Families who have adopted children with special needs from the NYC foster care system
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To prevent adoption dissolution by providing a non-threatening and caring environment where adoptive families of children with special needs can access support services, develop relationships within the group setting, and enhance their parenting skills
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| New York |
Post Legal Adoption Network (PLAN)
New Alternatives for Children, Inc.
37 West 26th Street
New York, N.Y. 10010
Arlene Goldsmith
212.696.1550
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- Post Adoption Support subcommittee of the Adoption Action Network
- Adoption Clearance Committee
- NYC Council on Adoptable Children
- Foster and Adoptive Parent Organization
- Citizens' Coalition for Children
- New Alternatives for Children, Inc. (other programs within the organization)
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- Adoptive families of children with special needs
- Foster parents seeking to adopt a child with special needs
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To support adoption permanency with a continuum of services that not only help avoid disruption, but also improve the lives of families that have made the commitment to adopt children with challenging medical conditions
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| Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania Adoption Connection (PAC)
Family Service
630 Janet Avenue
Lancaster, PA 17601
Jean M. Landis
717.397.5241
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- York County Children and Youth Services
- Lancaster County Children and Youth Services
- Family Service (private agency)
- COBYS Family Service
- Bethany Christian Services
- Tressler Lutheran Services
- Lancaster County Mental Health/Mental Retardation
- Lancaster County Child and Adolescent Service System Program
- Adoptive parents
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Families who have adopted children with special needs from the State's foster care system
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To provide post-legal support services to families who have adopted children with special needs
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| Pennsylvania |
Beyond Adoption: Creating a Community of Support
Adoption Center of Delaware Valley
100 Walnut Street, Suite 701
Philadelphia, PA 19102
MariAnne Clarke
215.735.9410
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The Delaware Valley Adoption Council, a local organization comprised of more than 40 adoption agencies
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Adoptive families of children with special needs
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To strengthen and preserve families who have adopted children with special needs in the Delaware Valley
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| Vermont |
Post-Legal Adoption Services to Strengthen and Preserve Adoptive Families
Dept. of Social and Rehabilitation Services
103 S. Main Street
Waterbury, VT 05671
Diane Dexter
802.241.2142
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- Department of SRS (public child welfare agency)
- Casey Family Services
- Children's Aid Society
- Futures/Northeast Kingdom Mental Health
- Adoption Advocates, Inc.
- Easter Seals Teaching Family Center
- Foster/Adoptive Family Association
- Adoptive Parent Support Network
- Family Life Services
- Lund Family Center
- Parent to Parent
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- All adoptive families, regardless of income or method of adoption
- Children in State custody who are legally available for adoption and their foster parents
- Families who have adopted transracially
- Service providers for adoption training
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To respond to needs for preventive, therapeutic, and educational services in order to improve the quality of life for adoptive families, thereby preventing the unnecessary separation of adopted children from their parents
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| Washington |
Strengthening Special Needs and Interracial Foster-Adoptive Families: A Service Delivery Program Design for the Lifelong Journey of Adoption
Catholic Family and Child Service
5301 Tieton Drive, Suite C
Yakima, WA 98908
Debi Axford
509.965.7100
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- Division of Children and Family Services
- Casey Family Programs
- Eastern Washington University
- Catholic Charities
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- Pre- and post-legal adoptive families and kinship families in the catchment area
- Adoptive families parenting a child with an ethnic heritage not shared by the adoptive family
- Service providers for adoption training
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To ensure that adoptive families and kinship families have the foundation they need to thrive throughout the lifelong journey of adoption
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