"Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child" bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's special needs adoption system. It is designed to be used by adoption professionals and adoptive parents, to help them get started, keep going, and locate whatever additional information and support they need. The authors are adoption professionals, long-time support volunteers, child advocates, and mothers of a total of 21 children, 13 of them adopted children with special needs.
Tens of thousands of children in the United States alone are waiting...
"Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child" bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's speci...
Parents, child advocates, and family attorneys need to understand how to put the federal adoption assistance law to work for their children and clients in order to create adoptions, keep them intact and healthy, and encourage future special needs adoptive placements as well. This guide through the state adoption bureaucracies shows how to navigate the adoption assistance process, negotiate an adoption assistance contract, and plan effective administrative hearings and adoption subsidy appeals.
Essentially four books in one, this book includes and explains the federal IV-E adoption...
Parents, child advocates, and family attorneys need to understand how to put the federal adoption assistance law to work for their children and cli...
Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's special needs adoption system. It is designed to be used by adoption professionals and adoptive parents, to help them get started, keep going, and locate whatever additional information and support they need. The authors are adoption professionals, long-time support volunteers, child advocates, and mothers of a total of 21 children, 13 of them adopted children with special needs. Tens of thousands of children in the United States alone are waiting in...
Adopting and Advocating for the Special Needs Child bridges the gap between the desire to help a waiting child and the reality of America's special ne...
The personal and emotional stories related in this work realistically illustrate both the positive and negative aspects of adoption. The varied characters and events of each story address many of the unique situations presented by adoption.
The personal and emotional stories related in this work realistically illustrate both the positive and negative aspects of adoption. The varied charac...
