Special Needs Adoption - Advocacy Resources
Part 3: Special Needs Adoption Advocacy Resources - Adoption Policy Resource Center, maintained by Dr. Tim O'Hanlon of Adoption Advocates.
Adoption Advocates provides: - direct advocacy for individual adoptive families;
- systemic advocacy for adoption organizations and coalitions;
- technical assistance, including case law, to legislators, administrators at all levels of government and lawyers representing the interests of adoptive families;
- policy research and analysis, disseminated through the Adoption Advocates newsletter, Issues in Adoption Advocacy.
- the online Adoption Policy Resource Center, which offers access to a variety of useful information resources on adoption to a wide audience.
Established by Steven Humerickhouse and Timothy O'Hanlon in 1995, this site supports adoption through direct advocacy for individual adoptive families and provides technical assistance to organizations and professionals.
- Adoption Information, Laws and Reforms
Many helpful links from the Adoption Ring. The Adoption Ring is a public service ring dedicated to the best interests of adoption triad members. It is an ever expanding group of over 300 pages designed to allow web surfers to navigate educational adoption sites just by clicking the "Back and "Next" buttons found on each page.
- National Adoption Center
This is the home of The Learning Center and Adopt US Kids, America's Waiting Children; a computerized photolisting of special needs children and adoption - related information on the Internet. A waiting child matching resource (find your new son or daughter with online photolistings!), and adoption support online resources with chat, message boards, articles, a mailing list, and more.
- Findlaw
FindLaw is dedicated to making legal information such as state laws and adoption laws on the Internet easy to find. Maintained by Martin Roscheisen, Tim Stanley and Stacy Stern. Features include:- The FindLaw Guide to Internet legal resources. This comprehensive guide includes links to resources in over 30 practice areas, case law and codes, legal associations, law schools, law reviews,and more!
- The LawCrawler - an innovative search tool powered by the AltaVista™ search engine and database that provides precision by enabling searches to be focused on sites with legal information and within specific domains.
- Cases & Codes - search our growing library of case law, including Supreme Court Decisions, and selected state codes.
- Law Review Search & Services from FindLaw you can search law reviews with full text articles online, and this is just the beginning.
- North American Council on Adoptable Children
NACAC is not a placement agency, but a national nonprofit that researches adoption issues, educates members of the adoption community and the general public about adoption, and advocates for every child's right to a permanent family. Over the past two decades NACAC has supported over 600 adoptive parent groups, published significant research findings, and provided expert testimony to federal and state governments, universities, major foundations, and media representatives. NACAC provides technical consulting to answer parents' and adoption workers' questions about state and federal adoption programs.
- National Adoption Information Clearinghouse
The National Adoption Information Clearinghouse is a comprehensive resource on all aspects of adoption, including infant, inter-country, and special needs adoption. Established in 1987, NAIC is a service of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Department of Health and Human Services. This is THE place to order free copies of state and federal adoption laws!
- The Children's Bureau
The oldest federal agency for children, the Children's Bureau (CB) is located within the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families, Administration on Children, Youth and Families. It is responsible for assisting States in the delivery of child welfare services - services designed to protect children and strengthen families. The agency provides grants to States, Tribes and communities to operate a range of child welfare services including child protective services (child abuse and neglect) family preservation and support, foster care, adoption and independent living. In addition, the agency makes major investments in staff training, technology and innovative programs.
- Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
In the Spirit of Thomas Jefferson, a service of the US Congress through its library. Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to the Internet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. Searching capabilities in THOMAS were built on the InQuery information retrieval system, developed by the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval based at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and now available commercially from Sovereign Hill Software.
The above list is taken in part from the book
"Adoption Assistance: Tools for Navigating the Bureaucracy", (1999, Bergin & Garvey) by Rita Laws, Ph.D., and Tim O'Hanlon, Ph.D. Reprinted by permission.
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