Laws & Legal Issues
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- Promoting Safe and Stable Families
- Using Child Welfare Mediation to Expedite Permanency
- Be a Voice for Children
- Legislative Alert
- Legal Challenges to Adoptions
- Hiring an Attorney
- The US Department of Health and Human Services Issues Program Instruction on Interjurisdictional Ado
- The Adoption and Safe Families Act - Foster Parent Notice and an Opportunity to be Heard
- First Independent Analysis of Front Line Child Welfare Practice Reveals City's Reforms Not Reaching
- Rediscovering Voluntary Relinquishment Practice
- The Adoption Process, Financial Incentives
- Preparing Children for Court - Chapter II
- Good News for Adoptive Parents !!!!
- Foster Parents and Their Responsibilities
- Foster Parents' Rights
- Preparing Children for Court
- Insurance
- Thoughts On President Clinton's Directive On Adoption
- Preparing Children for Court - Chapter I
- Kids Need Lawyers
- Harvey Kietel Joins Board of Directors of Children's Rights, an Advocacy Group for Children in Foste
Promoting Safe and Stable Families
Promoting Safe and Sable Families - Title IV-B-2... [more]
Using Child Welfare Mediation to Expedite Permanency
More than a dozen states are using or considering the use of mediation in custody cases. More states are likely to follow suit as they realize the benefits of this model.... [more]
Be a Voice for Children
Child advocates must come together to help policymakers hear and understand the needs of waiting children as well as foster and adoptive families as they develop legislative agendas and budgets for the coming years.... [more]
Legislative Alert
Information on Title IV-E foster care program and legislative issues in 2003.... [more]
Legal Challenges to Adoptions
Facts and information about the legal considerations to understand when entering into planning to adopt a child.... [more]
Hiring an Attorney
Hire an attorney who is experienced in handling adoptions.... [more]
The US Department of Health and Human Services Issues Program Instruction on Interjurisdictional Ado
Responses to issues of interjurisdictional placement of children and provisions of the Adoption and Safe Families Act referred to as "geographic barriers".... [more]
The Adoption and Safe Families Act - Foster Parent Notice and an Opportunity to be Heard
Recognition by federal and state governments of the critical role foster parents, pre-adoptive parents and relatives caring for foster children play in the lives of those children. Laws and practice that address the implementation of input from these parties on behalf of foster children.... [more]
First Independent Analysis of Front Line Child Welfare Practice Reveals City's Reforms Not Reaching
Special Child Welfare Advisory Panel releases report that child welfare reform in New York City is not reaching performance of front-line workers.... [more]
Rediscovering Voluntary Relinquishment Practice
Voluntary relinquishment of parental rights allows for a child to move into a permanent placement situation; practices and policies surrounding this action.... [more]
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