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- Title
Hope for the Children: A Community-Based Approach to Supporting Families Who Adopt Children with Special Needs.
- Authors
Kramer, Laurie; Houston, Doris
- Abstract
This study explored the need for and use of support by preadoptive families of children with special needs in the Hope for the Children program. The families live in a community alongside other foster and adoptive parents, senior citizen volunteers, tutors, therapists, mentors, and family advocates, and receive extensive community supports. Descriptive results from the study provide a basis for recommendations about the use of coordinated service delivery systems to promote adoption success.
- Subjects
ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; SPECIAL needs adoption; ADOPTIVE parents; ADOPTION agencies; ADOPTION; ADOPTEES; SOCIAL work administration; SOCIAL services; HUMAN services; SOCIAL history
- Publication
Child Welfare, 1999, Vol 78, Issue 5, p611
- ISSN
0009-4021
- Publication type
Article