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Spotlight on Adoption

Adoption offers the most legally stable permanent family relationship for youth in foster care who are unable to return home. The following resources offer research findings and strategies specifically focused on adoption of youth in care.

Adoption Promotion Act of 2003 (PDF - 33 KB)
This law expanded adoption incentive awards for State child welfare agencies to support adoptions of children from foster care who are ages 9 and older.

AdoptUsKids
Photolisting of children in foster care waiting for adoption and support materials for professionals working in adoption. Almost 70 percent of the children featured on this website who have been placed for adoption are ages 9 and older.

Field-Initiated Research on Successful Adolescent Adoptions (PDF - 1061 KB)
The Center for Child and Family Studies, College of Social Work, University of South Carolina
Activities and outcomes of a study that investigated factors for successful adolescent adoptions.

FY 2005 Children's Bureau Competitive Cooperative Agreements and Discretionary Grant Awards
Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Cooperative agreement awards for developing adoption services and supports for youth who wish to retain contact with family members in order to improve permanency outcomes.

Information Packet: Adolescent Identity and the Impact on Adoptive Parents (PDF - 149 KB)
National Resource Center for Foster Care and Permanency Planning
Tips for parents of teens who are struggling with adoption issues, bibliographies for parents and adolescents, and other resources.

Successful Adolescent Adoptions
The Center for Child and Family Studies, College of Social Work, University of South Carolina
Pamphlets with insight from adolescents who have been adopted and adoptive parents.

Terminating the Parental Rights of Older Children
Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Effects of the termination of parental rights on older foster youths' foster care and adoption experiences.

	Information Gateway Library Search Includes publications from 2000 to present Adoption of Youth

Updated on March 1, 2010