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Adoption - The Annie E. Casey Foundation Adoption is a legal process that permanently transfers parental responsibility from a child's birth parents to their adoptive parents After reunification, it is the next most secure permanency option for children in foster care
Foster Care - The Annie E. Casey Foundation There are four ways children can leave foster care for permanent homes: Reunification with birth parents or primary caregivers, adoption, guardianship, and placement with relatives Among children exiting foster care each year, nearly half — about 100,000 kids in 2021 — are reunited with a parent or primary caretaker
Adoptions From Foster Care - The Annie E. Casey Foundation Children waiting for adoption; by amount of time waiting; by age group; by race and ethnicity; Children exiting foster care to adoptions and other reasons; Children in the child welfare system who have been adopted; by age group; by pre-adoptive relationship with adoptive parents; by race and ethnicity
Achieving Permanency Through Adoption - The Annie E. Casey Foundation When getting a foster kid back with his family is not going to work, adoption is the next most secure permanency option This training focuses specifically on achieving permanency through adoption with emphasis on the clinical skills necessary in preparing children and youth, resource families and newly recruited foster families for the transition
The Effects of Training for Adoption Competency on Clinical Services . . . This document introduces a study devoted to examining the effectiveness and quality of an adoption-specific training model called Training for Adoption Competency (TAC) The research assesses both the experiences and outcomes of adoptive families who were receiving clinical services in community-based outpatient settings
Promising Practices in Adoption-Competent Mental Health Services In 2000, adopted children were, on average, 6 9 years old and had been in foster care for over 3 years by the time their adoption was finalized Special Kids 88% of kids adopted in 2000 qualified for a special needs subsidy based on their age, minority status, membership in a sibling group, or medical, psychiatric or emotional health issue(s)
Child Welfare and Foster Care Statistics - The Annie E. Casey Foundation Our nation’s child welfare system strives to protect children from maltreatment, support families in crisis, keep children safely with their parents when possible, provide temporary out-of-home care for children when needed and ultimately ensure that children have safe, permanent homes with their families, relatives, adoptive par