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Preplacement Adoption Casework Practice Web Section (Article)
"Find a variety of resources for recruiting, preparing, and retaining foster and adoptive parents."...
About Adoption (Article)
If you have questions about adoption procedures, general requirements, and /or terminology you will find this fact sheet very helpful....
Five Ways to Promote Adoption (Article)
"This brief explains five strategies Court Appointed Special Advocates can use to promote the adoption of children in the child welfare system."...
Foster Care Adoption Myths and Misperceptions (Article)
"This fact sheet states Americans do not fully understand U.S. foster care adoption and that Americans underestimate the families who are capable of adopting from foster care. Charts are presented that pair myths with facts that indicate foster care adopt...
Groups: The Top Five Benefits and F.A.Q. (Article)
"This brief explains the benefits of support groups to individuals including helping individuals overcome isolation, build resilience, learn something new, feel validated which enhances self-esteem, and feel better."...

Recommended Adoption & Foster Care Resources

18 days of Understanding.... (Article)
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel all over China and visit the many orphanages, play with the children and weep when you have to return to college?...
Did I Steal My Daughter? The Tribulations of Global Adoption (Article)
I first met my daughter in the lobby of the Westin Camino Real, the grandest hotel in Guatemala City. The night before, my husband Walter and I had soothed our nerves running on the treadmills in the fitness center, where a polite attendant handed us plus...
20 Questions about Adoption (Article)
Congratulations on taking that step to build or grow your family! As an ethical child placement agency, it is also our responsibility to encourage families to look realistically at the big picture. Adoption is a lifelong process that does not end when t...
Adoption Research Project- Post Adoption (Article)
I would like to invite anyone interested in participating in a research project that we are conducting at the International Adoption Center at Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children. We are try to understand the stress that many people may experience f...
Kinship Care (Article)
Kinship Care is when a relative or an emotional close person takes primary responsibility in taking care of a child...