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Adoption and financial assistance : tools for navigating the bureaucracy / Rita Laws and Tim O'Hanlon ; foreword by Jeanette Wiedemeier Bower.

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Adoption and financial assistance : tools for navigating the bureaucracy / Rita Laws and Tim O'Hanlon ; foreword by Jeanette Wiedemeier Bower.
Author
Laws, Rita, 1956-
Publication
Westport, Conn. : Bergin & Garvey, 1999.

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O'Hanlon, Tim.
Description
xii, 271 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Adoption > Law and legislation > United States
  • Federal aid to child welfare > United States
  • Foster children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
  • Special needs adoption > United States
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-258) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Pt. I. Adoption and the Bureaucracy -- 1. Adoption ABCs: Advocacy, Bureaucracy, and Children -- 2. Foster Care and Adoption Assistance Rates -- 3. Special Service Subsidies: Important Extras -- 4. Welcome to the Bureaucracy: Adoptive Parents and Agencies -- 5. Adoption Assistance: Progress and Obstacles for Adoptive Families -- Pt. II. Tools for Advocacy -- 6. Why Adoption Support Groups? -- 7. Adoption Assistance and the Crucial Adoption Assistance Contract -- 8. Adoptive Families As Community Assets -- 9. Administrative Hearings: Appealing Agency Decisions -- 10. Hearings, Part 2: Applying for Adoption Assistance and Retroactive Payments after a Final Decree of Adoption -- 11. Setbacks and Victories: One Family's Story -- 12. Parent Groups and Legislators -- 13. Disclosure of Information and the Liability of Adoption Agencies -- Pt. III. Document Appendices -- Word Index to Policy Interpretation Questions or PIQs -- Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997, P.L. 105-89: Summary -- P.L. 96-272 Title IV-E, 1980 -- Federal PIQs and Other Issuances -- Federal Regulations on Administrative Fair Hearings -- Federal Adoption Assistance Regulations -- 1998 State Supreme Court Decisions on Title IV-E Adoption Assistance after Finalization -- Pt. IV. Information Resources -- Regional Offices U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families -- Adoption Assistance World Wide Web Sites -- National Organizations for Special Needs Adoptive Families and Advocates.
ISBN
0897896688 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^98055901^
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Harvard Library