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Series: Grantee Lessons Learned |
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Author(s):
Child Welfare Information Gateway
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| Year Published: 2005 |
Appendix A: Project Information
| State | Grantee Information | Collaboration Partners | Target Populations | Primary Goal |
| Arizona |
Adoption Network |
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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 |
| California |
Post Legal Adoption Services Targeting Single Mothers of Children with Special Needs |
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To increase and sustain the adoption of African American children |
| California |
Post-Legal Adoption Support Program, Family and Friends Adoptive Network (FFAN) |
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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 |
To create a formal system of post-legal adoption services designed to support and strengthen the family |
| California |
Adoptive Family Therapeutic and Educational Resources (AFTER) |
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| California |
Partnership for Strengthening Identity |
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Adopted children of color and their families nationwide |
To help adoptive families and parent groups to strengthen the identity of transracially adopted children |
| Connecticut |
The Post-Legal Adoption Services Program |
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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 |
| Connecticut |
Post-legal Adoption Services Together (PAST) |
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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| Massachusetts |
Pathways to Adoption |
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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 |
| Michigan |
Adoption Opportunities Grant |
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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 |
| New York |
Forever Families/Familias Para Siempre Program |
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Families who have adopted children with special needs from the NYC foster care system |
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 |
| New York |
Post Legal Adoption Network (PLAN) |
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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 |
| Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania Adoption Connection (PAC) |
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Families who have adopted children with special needs from the State's foster care system |
To provide post-legal support services to families who have adopted children with special needs |
| Pennsylvania |
Beyond Adoption: Creating a Community of Support |
The Delaware Valley Adoption Council, a local organization comprised of more than 40 adoption agencies |
Adoptive families of children with special needs |
To strengthen and preserve families who have adopted children with special needs in the Delaware Valley |
| Vermont |
Post-Legal Adoption Services to Strengthen and Preserve Adoptive Families |
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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 |
| Washington |
Strengthening Special Needs and Interracial Foster-Adoptive Families: A Service Delivery Program Design for the Lifelong Journey of Adoption |
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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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