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Foster Care Adoption

Adopting a Child With Special Needs: Meaning, Process, and Support

In adoption, “special needs” can have both an everyday meaning and a legal or program-specific meaning. It may refer to medical, developmental, emotional, behav...

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Foster Care Adoption
Adopting a Child With Special Needs: Meaning, Process, and Support

In adoption, “special needs” can have both an everyday meaning and a legal or program-specific meani...

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Foster Care Adoption
How Foster Care Adoption Works

Adoption from foster care provides a permanent legal family for a child when reunification with pare...

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Foster-to-Adopt: How It Works and What Families Should Understand
Foster Care Adoption
Foster-to-Adopt: How It Works and What Families Should Understand

“Foster-to-adopt” usually describes a family that becomes approved to foster children and is also wi...

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Adopting a Child With Additional Needs From Foster Care
Foster Care Adoption
Adopting a Child With Additional Needs From Foster Care

Children adopted from foster care may have medical, developmental, emotional, behavioral, educationa...

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Foster Care Adoption
Supporting Safe Birth-Family Connections in Foster Care

Children in foster care may have meaningful relationships with parents, siblings, grandparents, exte...

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