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Post-Permanency Services for Children With Disabilities

Resources on post-adoption services for children with disabilities and their families.

Beyond Adoption: Supporting Adoptive Families of Children With Special Needs
Bruner, Kot, & Cameron (2000)
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Details Iowa's experience with adoption of children with special needs and efforts to support adoptive families.

Does Respite Care Reduce Parental Stress in Families With Developmentally Disabled Children?
Chan & Sigafoos
Child and Youth Care Forum, 30(5), 2001
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Reviews studies that have evaluated the effects of respite care services used by families who have children with developmental disabilities.

Issues Facing Adoptive Mothers of Children With Special Needs
Forbes & Dziegielewski
Journal of Social Work, 3(3), 2003
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Examines issues that mothers of children with special needs present when seeking professional therapy.

Respite Care: A Guide to the Development and Implementation of a Respite Care Program
Jorgenson & Jorgenson (2000)
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Information about respite care services for families of youth with special needs, including adopted youth, youth in foster care, and youth with disabilities.

Respite Care Services for Families Who Adopt Children with Special Needs: Synthesis of Demonstration Program Final Reports

Series Title:	Grantee Lessons Learned
Author(s):	Child Welfare Information Gateway
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Year Published:	2002 - 10 pages

This report synthesizes information from the final program and evaluation reports of 8 Adoption Opportunities discretionary grants programs written between 1994 and 1999. It summarizes project descriptions, lessons learned, accomplishments, and recommendations. An appendix includes project information for each of the 8 projects, including contact information, area served, target population, and evaluation activities.

Transracial Adoption of Children With Developmental Disabilities: A Focus on Parental and Family Adjustment
Lazarus, Evans, Glidden, & Flaherty
Adoption Quarterly, 6(1), 2002
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Study comparing families who adopted children with developmental disabilities transracially, within race, and both.

Updated on November 19, 2008