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

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

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Additional authors
  1. O'Hanlon, Tim.
Description
  1. xii, 271 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  1. Adoption > Law and legislation > United States
  2. Federal aid to child welfare > United States
  3. Foster children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
  4. Special needs adoption > United States
  5. United States
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-258) and index.
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