Accessing Federal Adoption Subsidies After Legalization

Author : Tim O'Hanlon
Publisher : CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accessing Federal Adoption Subsidies After Legalization written by Tim O'Hanlon and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 1995 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how changes in the federal Title IV-E adoption assistance program provide an opportunity for adoptive families who are struggling to meet the medical and psychological needs of their children to receive badly needed financial and medical assistance. The guide is designed to help adoptive families apply for adoption assistance after legalization and for retroactive adoption assistance payments, regardless of their state of residence.

Author : Rita Laws
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption and Financial Assistance written by Rita Laws and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 assistance law and many of the important clarifications that have been issued by the federal government over the last two decades; takes the reader inside the culture of the state adoption bureaucracies to show how they operate, and why they sometimes seem to be working against adoptive families instead of with them; illustrates how to negotiate and periodically renegotiate the crucial adoption assistance contract, and how to file and prepare for an administrative hearing and an appeal should the decision go against a family; and provides easy-to-understand examples in numerous sidebars that illustrate important points every adoptive family should understand. Families who have or will adopt children with special needs may be able to save tens of thousands of dollars using the information provided here.

Author : Gregory Keck
Publisher : Tyndale House
ISBN 13 : 161521447X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adopting the Hurt Child written by Gregory Keck and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without avoiding the grim statistics, this book reveals the real hope that hurting children can be healed through adoptive and foster parents, social workers, and others who care. Includes information on foreign adoptions.

Author : Michael E. Lamb
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1135683018
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parenting and Child Development in Nontraditional Families written by Michael E. Lamb and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998-10 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book goes beyond traditional families and traditional notions about their impact on child development to consider parallel issues with less-frequently-studied types of families. For developmentalists, family specialists, clinicians, and educators.

Author : Gregory Keck
Publisher : Tyndale House
ISBN 13 : 1615214542
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parenting the Hurt Child written by Gregory Keck and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is full of hurt children, and bringing one into your home can quickly derail the easy family life you once knew. Get effective suggestions, wisdom, and advice to parent the hurt child in your life. The best hope for tragedy prevention is knowledge! Updated and revised.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth Law News written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ABA Child Law Practice written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Barbara A. Moe
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption written by Barbara A. Moe and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores current issues surrounding adoption in the United States, milestones in adoption history, and individuals who have profoundly affected child welfare and adoption philosophies and practices.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Public Welfare written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emilie Stoltzfus
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781490957852
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Child Welfare written by Emilie Stoltzfus and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the Adoption Incentives program states earn federal bonuses when they increase adoptions of children who are in need of new permanent families. All 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have earned a part of the $375 million in Adoption Incentive funds that have been awarded since the program was established as part of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Funding authorized for this program has been extended twice since it was established, most recently in 2008, but is currently set to expire on September 30, 2013. Since ASFA's enactment in 1997, the annual number of children leaving foster care for adoption has risen from roughly 30,000 to more than 50,000 and the average length of time it took states to complete the adoption of a child from foster care declined by close to one year (from about four years to less than three). Over the same time period, and in significant measure due to the greater number of children leaving foster care for adoption and at a faster pace, the overall number of children who remain in foster care declined by 29%. Despite these successes, however, the number of children “waiting for adoption” remains more than double the number of children who are adopted during a given year. Under the current Adoption Incentive bonus structure, states earn $4,000 for each adoption of a foster child that is above the number of foster child adoptions finalized by the state in FY2007 and $8,000 for each adoption of an older child (9 years or older) above the number of older child adoptions it finalized in FY2007. If a state has earned an award in either of those categories—or if it improves its adoption rate—it earns $4,000 for each adoption of a special needs child (under age 9) that is above the number of such adoptions it finalized in FY2007. For improving its rate of adoption, a state is eligible for additional incentive funds of $1,000 multiplied by the increased number of adoptions that are calculated to have resulted from the improved adoption rate. However, increases in incentive amounts states earn due to improved adoption rates are only paid to those states if sufficient program appropriations are available after all awards for increases in the number of adoptions have been made. States are permitted to use Adoption Incentive bonuses to support a broad range of child welfare services to children and families. Many states report spending incentive funds on adoption-related child welfare purposes, including post-adoption support services, recruitment of adoptive homes, and training or conferences to improve adoption casework. A smaller number of states report using these funds for adoption assistance payments, improved adoption homes studies, child protection casework, foster care maintenance payments, or other child welfare purposes. Funding for the Adoption Incentives program is provided on a discretionary basis as part of the annual appropriations process. The program is authorized to receive $43 million annually (through FY2013), but in recent years actual appropriations have been around $39 million. Final FY2013 appropriations for the Adoption Incentives program were included in the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 at this same level. However, those appropriations are subject to a 5% reduction (under the March 1 sequestration order).