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Barriers and Success Factors in Adoptions
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Barriers and Success Factors in Adoptions
from Foster Care: Perspectives of Families
and Staff As part of the Collaboration to AdoptUsKids between the years 2002-2007, two legislatively mandated adoption research studies were conducted by the University of Texas at Austin Center for Social Work Research. The “Barriers Study” focused on barriers to adoption experienced by a nationwide purposive sample of 300 families who were in the process of adopting a child from the child welfare system. In addition, a nationwide sample of 382 private and public agency adoption staff members were surveyed to assess their perspectives on barriers to the adoption process. The second study, referred to as the “Success Factors Study,” involved a four-year prospective examination of a nationwide sample of 161 adoptive families who had adopted children from the child welfare system in order to identify factors that contributed to their successful adoption outcomes. More...The Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children seeks to provide ease of transition for the children of transferred members of the military More... New carseat law passed More... New Parent Support Groups Being Formed in Houston, San Angelo and Midland. More... Federal Adoption Tax Credit for Special Needs AdoptionsJoin the COAC email list.
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