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Autor/inn/en | Kramer, Laurie; Houston, Doris |
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Titel | Hope for the Children: A Community-Based Approach to Supporting Families Who Adopt Children with Special Needs. |
Quelle | In: Child Welfare, 78 (1999) 5, S.611-35 |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0009-4021 |
Schlagwörter | Adopted Children; Adoption; Adoptive Parents; Community Support; Family Role; Social Agencies; Social Support Groups; Illinois |
Abstract | Notes that adoptive families have formal (agency-related) and informal (indigenous) resources to draw on for assistance with a variety of issues. Describes Hope for the Children (HFTC) program located in Rantoul, Illinois, a created community designed to foster permanence of special-needs adoptions, in which adoptive families live alongside agency and indigenous supporters to provide a wrap-around support network. (LBT) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |