Post-Legal Adoption Services For Children with Special Needs and Their Families: Challenges and Lessons Learned

Series Title: Grantee Lessons Learned

Author(s): Child Welfare Information Gateway

Year Published: 2005

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This briefing paper synthesizes the final reports of 15 3-year grants were awarded in 1998 to increase permanency and well-being for children with special needs by preventing adoption disruption, dissolution, or out-of-home placement. The projects targeted post-legal adoptive families and their children with special needs, pre-adoptive families, single adoptive parents, transracial adoptive families, and kinship families.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Overview of Services and Outcomes

Common Challenges/Promising Strategies

Lessons Learned

Conclusion

Appendix A: Project Information

Appendix B: Services Provided—by Grantee

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Acknowledgment(s): This synthesis was made possible by the Children's Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The conclusions discussed here are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not represent the official views or policies of the funding agency. Publication does not in any way constitute an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Suggested Citation: Child Welfare Information Gateway. (2005). Post-legal adoption services for children with special needs and their families: Challenges and lessons learned. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Children’s Bureau.

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