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Peer reviewedGill, Margaret M.; Amadio, Carol M. – Child Welfare, 1983
Discusses foster care with potential for adoption, describes eight legal categories identified as appropriate for foster care/adoption planning, and indicates aspects of cooperation between social work and legal personnel. Rights of biological parents, the importance of trust among parties concerned, and misuses and pitfalls of the foster…
Descriptors: Adoption, Caseworker Approach, Cooperation, Foster Care
Peer reviewedWimmer, Jane S.; Richardson, Sharon – Child Welfare, 1990
United Methodist Family Services of Virginia placed 41 developmentally disabled children in adoptive homes between August 1985 and June 1988. Efforts of the program's caseworkers to find potential adoptive families and obstacles to the placement of the children, are discussed. (BG)
Descriptors: Adoption, Caseworker Approach, Caseworkers, Children
Sullivan, Ann – 1998
Over the last several years, state and local governments have increased the privatization of a range of services that historically have been provided by government agencies, including adoption services. This issue brief of the Child Welfare League of America provides adoption professionals with information on the privatization of adoption…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Adoptive Parents, Agencies
