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001. list
Re: Minimum Wage Bill Signing Adoption Advocates (partial) (2
n.d.
b(6)
pages)
COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Maggie Williams (Subject Files)
OA/Box Number: 12631
FOLDER TITLE:
Adoption 1 [4]
Rhonda Young
2013-0359-S
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Margaret C Ayers
Exce Dir
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Inc
135 E. 64-st.
NY, NY 10021
Peter and
Mr & mrs. Peter Novton
Norton Family Foundation
225 Arizona Avenue
2nd Floor West
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Pls add:
d)
2
-
Larry Kessler
Alan CEO Hassen feld
Exec Dif
Public welfare Foundation
Habro, Inc
2600 Virginia Ave, NW
32 West 23rd St.
suite 505
wash , DC 20037-1977
NY, NY 10010
And
call for
address
Carol Williams
Karen Childrens Dorsey Bureau ph 205-8618
DHHS
Sent adoption proc to
file
Meeting with Foundation Leaders on Adoption Issues
The White House
August 2, 1996
List of Participants
Background information on meeting participants follows under specified tabs:
TAB
A
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
The White House
B.
Ms. Mary M. Bellor
President
Philip L. Graham Fund
c/o The Washington Post Company
1150 Fifteenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20017
Ph: 202-334-6640
C.
Ms. Ellen Block
Director
Hasbro Children's Foundation
32 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Ph: 212-645-2400
D.
Ms. Barbara B. Blum
President
Foundation for Child Development
345 East 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
Ph: 212-697-3150
E.
Mr. Calvin Cafritz
President and Chairman of the Board
Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
1825 K Street NW 14th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
Ph: 202-296-0866
F.
Ms. Nancy M. Daly
Nancy M. Daly Foundation
256 Copa de Ora Road
Los Angeles, CA 90077
Ph: 310-476-3259
G.
Ms. Jann Heffner
Executive Director
Wendy's Foundation
4288 West Dublin-Granville Road
E pls send 5
Dublin, OH 43017
Ph: 614-764-8454
H.
Ms. Carol Larson
Director of Foundation Programs
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
300 Second Street, Suite 200
Los Altos, CA 94022
Ph: 415-948-7658
I.
Mr. Theodore E. Lobman
President
Stuart Foundation
177 Steuart Street
Suite 420
San Francisco, CA 94105
Ph: 415-495-1144
J.
Mr. Michael Levine
Program Officer for Education
and Healthy Development of Children and Youth
Carnegie Corporation of New York
437 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022
Ph: 212-207-6314
K.
Ms. Ruth Massinga
Chief Executive Officer
The Casey Family Program
1300 Dexter Avenue North
Seattle, WA 98109-3547
Ph: 206-282-7300
L.
Mr. Douglas W. Nelson
Executive Director
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Suite 701
Paul Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Ph: 410-223-2931
M.
Ms. Susan Notkin
Program Director for Children's Programs
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
250 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10177-9100
Ph: 212-551-9100
N.
Ms. Julie L. Rogers
President
Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation
1400 16th Street, NW Suite 360
Washington, DC 20036
Ph: 202-483-8294
O.
Mr. Robert Rogers
President and Chief Executive Officer
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
4900 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64112-2776
Ph: 816-932-1000
P.
Mr. Leonard Smith
President and Trustee
Skillman Foundation
600 Renaissance Center
Suite 1700
Detroit, MI 48243
Ph: 313-568-6360
Q.
Mr. Paul Vander Velde
Program Director
Youth and Education: Higher Education
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
One Michigan Avenue East
Battle Creek, MI 49017-4058
Ph: 616-969-2235
R.
Ms. Kathy Whelpley
Acting Executive Director
Freddie Mac Foundation
Mailstop 259
8200 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA 22102
Ph: 703-903-2214
Voice for International Development & Adoption
354 Allen street
Hudson, NY 12534
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001. list
Re: Minimum Wage Bill Signing Adoption Advocates (partial) (2
n.d.
b(6)
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COLLECTION:
Clinton Presidential Records
First Lady's Office
Maggie Williams (Subject Files)
OA/Box Number: 12631
FOLDER TITLE:
Adoption 1 [4]
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Pls call below
1:30
456-7787
for addresses of Minimum Those Wage hight Bill Signing shted
Adoption Advocates
When inviting the following people to the Minimum Wage Bill Signing, please specify that
the Minimum Wage Bill also includes provisions on adoption -- the tax credit and other
provisions.
Those with DOBs and SSN had accepted when event was originally scheduled event and
should be re-invited -- all should be invited.
Carolyn Johnson
215/73/5-9988
Executive Director
100 -familin
National Adoption Center
(b)(6)
Bill Pierce
202/328-1200
President
1930 17th store me
National Council on Adoption
here IDC 20009
(b)(6)
Mady Prowler
215/205-8622
Director
Adoption Assistance Programs
National Adoption Center
(b)(6)
Theodore Mason
c/o 215/205-8622
Attorney and Board Member
National Adoption Center
(b)(6)
Mae Best
202/724-8602
Chief of Adoptions
D.C. Dept of Social Services
(b)(6)
Jan Heffner
614/764-3319
Executive Director, Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
(b)(6)
& Casey Eslercamp
Dave Thomas
614/764-3319
Dave Thomas Foundation
Dublin, Ohio
Leland C. Brendsel
703/903-3001
8200 Jones Branch Dr
Freddie Mac Foundation
McLean, VA 22102
(b)(6)
Rita Simon
202/885-2965
American University
(b)(6)
Sameul Lie Totaro
215/598-0951
American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (invite all four below at above #)
(b)(6)
Andrea Totaro
215/598-0951
(b)(6)
Juliana Totaro
215/598-0951
(adopted daughter)
(b)(6)
Christopher Totaro
215/598-0951
(adopted son)
(b)(6)
Mark Eckman
703/281-9166
American Academy of Adoption Attorney
(b)(6)
Ann Sullivan (if she can't come, please ask her to send a rep from CWLA -- very imp)
Adoption Program Director
Child Welfare League of America
202/638-2952
Joe Kroll
Exec. Director
North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
St. Paul, MN
612/644-3036
Drenda Lakin
Center Director
Spaulding for Children
Southfield, MI
313/443-7080
Dixie van de Flier Davis
The Adoption Exchange
Denver, CO
303/333-0845
c/wil Nebruk Are
Barbara Harrison
Wednesday's Child, Channel 4 TV
20016
202/885-4111
Susan Frievalds
The National Adoption Foundation
replace
Minneapolis, MN
3 Mr 4
612/544-6698
Douglas Mainwaring and Valerie Mainwaring
[stand behind
adoptive parents who testified in committee on adoption provisions
President]
301/330-9580 or 301/924-3661
Diane Dobson
adoptive parent
301/593-7018
-
Steve Humerickhouse
Adoptive parent/advocate
612-521-1098
Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children c/o Case unr Schos ylaw
Sheryl Dicker
914/422-4425, office
78 North broadman
914/834-8211, home
white Plans. 106 03
Norman Stein
212/753-4930, W
pls send 5
North American Council
on Adoptable Children
970 Raymond Avenue, Suite 106
St. Paul, Minnesota 55114
JOE KROLL
Tel: 612-644-3036
Executive Director
Fax: 612-644-9848
Training & Leadership Center
Send to:
Spaulding ***
16250 Northland Dr., Ste. 120
Southfield, MI 48075
for Children
313/443-7080
Fax: 443-7099
Drenda S. Lakin, ACSW
Center Director
Carolyn Johnson
t
pls
gend 5
National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoption
Exec Dir
National Adoption Center
Institute For
Philadelphia, 1500 walnut street PA 19102 Suite 700
BLACK PARENTING
ph 215 9988
Zena F. Oglesby Jr., MSW
Executive Director
The Adoption Exchange
610 Gold SW
Adoption
9920 La Cienega Blvd.
Foster Care
Suite 806
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Family Support
Inglewood, CA 90301
Family Preservation
(310) 348-1400
The Adoption Exchange
800-367-8858
Fax: (310) 215-3325
610 E South Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84102
Fin 303/320-5434
9F29-19F-008/1
303/333-0845
VSN
001 ams
umos 926
The Adoption Exchange
95 S. Niagara, suite # 100
FEEDS ().)
Executive Director
The
Denver, CO 80224
Dixie van de Flier Davis, Ed.D.
connecting children & families
Exchange
Adoption
Adoption Exchange Assn
820 S. Monaco Parkway
# 263
Denver, CO 80224
CWLA
CHILD WELFARE
LEAGUE OF AMERICA
Family Service Childrens Aid of
guarding
children's
Ann Sullivan, MSW
rights
Michigan Adoption Resource Exchange
Adoption Program Director
serving
children's
P.O. Box 6128
needs
factson, MI 49204
202/638-2952
Direct line: 202/942-0255
FAX 202/638-4004
440 First Street, NW, Suite 310
Washington, DC 20001-2085
Hdopthon
File
TO:
Hillary Rodham Clinton
FROM:
Melanne Verveer
Jennifer Klein
Nicole Rabner
DATE:
8/8/96
RE:
Adoption Ideas
This memo presents options for actions the Administration can take to break down
barriers to adoption and increase the number of children who are adopted. The
announcement of these actions could take place in 1997 as part of a "Year of the Waiting
Child." The goal of the year would be to: (1) increase the number of children who are
adopted; (2) raise public awareness about the joys and challenges of adoption; and (3) make
the adoption system work for children and families. This memo also outlines problems
with two other ideas that have been suggested.
I.
Increasing the number of children with special needs who are adopted
GOAL: Double the number of children with special needs who are adopted over the
next three years. This would eliminate the backlog of waiting children.
ACTIONS:
1.
Propose legislation to amend the Title IV-E Adoption Assistance Program to
include financial incentives for states that meet numerical goals.
Currently, the Federal government reimburses states for a portion of the cost
of providing adoption subsidies to families that adopt special needs children.
The amount of the reimbursement could be raised as states near or reach the
targets or as they increase recruitment of adoptive families. This proposal
would increase Federal costs.
2.
Work with states that commit to meet numerical targets by providing
technical assistance on the development of outcome measures and automated
data systems to track progress towards these goals.
3.
Issue an annual state-by-state report card to encourage states to improve their
status. Recognize successful states through certificates or White House
events.
4.
Propose legislation to create a new "legal guardianship" status and provide
subsidies for qualified long-term guardians.
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II.
Increasing public awareness and the willingness to adopt
GOAL: Undertake a high visibility education and awareness campaign. Increase
the use of "adoption-friendly" policies in the public and private sectors.
ACTIONS:
1.
Direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to lead a public
awareness effort, including public service announcements, use of the internet,
and the appointment of a high-profile advisory council with members chosen
for their ability to represent and work with various "sectors" of the
community (e.g., faith community, business. entertainment industry, etc.).
2.
Direct the Secretary of the Treasury to disseminate of information about tax
benefits and other adoption benefits.
3.
Direct the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to promote
adoption among Federal employees and make the Federal government a
model of adoption-friendly policies.
This would include: (1) developing legislation to create a new category of
leave benefits for Federal employees to provide 5 days of paid leave for
adoptive parents and an additional 5 days for parents who adopt children with
special needs (in addition to current leave benefits); (2) developing legislation
to reimburse Federal employees if they adopt a child (proposed during the
Bush Administration but not passed): and (3) directing all agencies to provide
information and support (e.g., a bank of federal employees who have adopted
to act as mentors for prospective adoptive parents).
4.
Direct the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce to identify and recognize
model adoption-friendly policies in the private sector.
III.
Making the adoption system work for children and families
GOAL: Develop and disseminate models to make the child welfare system more
responsive to the needs of waiting children and families.
ACTIONS:
1.
Direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) work with
foundations to replicate model projects to reduce waiting times (e.g., Kellogg
Foundation project in 19 communities to limit waiting times to one year); (2)
work with states and advocates to develop and disseminate model legislation
on termination of parental rights and model processes for family preparation
2
and assessment; and (3) urge the 20 states not currently participating to join
the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance to decrease
delays in adoptions across state lines.
2.
Direct the Attorney General to work with the National Council of Juvenile
and Family Court Judges to examine the issue of judicial training and rotation
and make recommendations for improvements.
Two other ideas have been suggested that raise serious concerns. One suggestion is
to require states to terminate parental rights after one year (with an exception if it is not in
the best interests of the child). As you know, this touches on one of the most difficult
issues in child welfare and would cause great alarm in the children's advocacy community
(at time when, because of the welfare bill, they are sensitive to begin with). In addition,
without a big infusion of additional Federal money, it is an unfunded mandate on states and
would be impractical given delays and limited capacity in the courts and social services
agencies. Finally, the exception for situations that are not in the best interests of the child
would create delays as courts tried to reach this determination, effectively eliminating any
chance that this rule would speed adoptions. A second suggestion is to penalize states that
are placing low numbers of children in families of different races under the Multi-Ethnic
Placement Act. Again, this would cause an uproar in the children's community and would
harm waiting children in those states where the most help is needed. We believe that the
incentives listed in Section I would do far more to eliminate the backlog of children waiting
for permanent homes.
3
file
John McCain
The Rosts's attorney has testified that
prompt enactment of the compromise is likely
to lead to an amicable settlement of the Rost
Amity in Indian Adoptions
case, ending further appeals of the recent
court ecision that allows the Indian twins to
stay with the Rost family.
The adoption of Indian children has raised
Subsequently, several of us have introduced
Those involved in the disputed cases believe
issues over the years that are charged with
legislation that reflects the compromise. It has
the changes made by the compromise bill will
emotion and tragedy. As recently as two
broad bipartisan support. Without trampling on
prevent many future controversies. I share
decades ago, inordinate numbers of Indian
tribal sovereignty and other fundamental prin-
their view.
children were virtually kidnapped from their
ciples in federal-Indian law, the bill amends the
Many times, Congress, with the very best
families and tribal communities and placed in
Indian Child Welfare Act to achieve greater
intentions, has passed laws which had unantici-
foster and adoptive care.
certainty and speed in adoptions involving
pated, adverse effects on the people they were
Although these efforts sometimes were mo-
Indian children through new guarantees of
intended to protect. The agreement we have
early and effective notice in all cases. This is
tivated by good intentions, the results often
reached on amendments to the Indian Child
combined with new, strict time restrictions on
were tragic. Generations of Indian children
Welfare Act is intended to rectify ICWA's unio-
both the right of Indian tribes to intervene and
were denied their rich cultural and political
tended consequences. The agreement respects
the right of Indian birth parents to revoke their
beritage as Native Americans. The well-docu-
the rights of Indians without risking the welfare
consent to an adoptive placement. The bill
mented abuses from that era are horrifying.
of Indian children as a price of that respect. We
would encourage early identification of the
One study concluded that between 25 and 35
need not impose on Indian children one or
relatively few cases involving controversy and
percent of all Indian children were torn from
another deprivation-be denied your heritage or
promote settlement of cases by making visita-
their birth families and tribes.
be denied a stable, secure home. These children,
tion agreements enforceable.
no less than any other children, deserve both
In 1978, Rep. Mo Udall and other leaders in
In exchange for guarantees of early notice.
cultural roots and loving parents. It is Congress's
Congress responded by enacting the Indian
Indian tribes have agreed to language that will
obligation to protect their rights to both by:
Child Welfare Act (ICWA) to prevent further
limit their right to intervene only to the
promptly enacting the agreement into law.
abuses of Indian children. Under ICWA, adop-
earliest stages of an adoption placement, giv-
tions of Indian children still could go forward,
ing up their right under current law to inter-
The writer, a Republican senator from
but the children's best interests were protect-
vene "at any point." If a tribe intervenes, it
Arizona, is chairman of the Senate
ed by involving Indian tribes in the welfare of
must certify to the state court that the child.
Committee on Indian Affairs
their children.
involved is a member, or eligible to be 2
Unfortunately, a new tragedy has emerged
member. of that tribe.
in recent years as ICWA has been implement-
ed. This one has been borne by non-Indian
adoptive families who, in a handful of high-
Jack Kemp
profile cases, have had their adoptions of
Indian children disrupted months and years
after they received the child. In some cases,
people facilitating the adoptions were accused
Unleash Our Economy!
of intentionally hiding from the courts, the
Many people think I consider "more growth"
After the Kennedy tax-rate cuts, the economy
adoptive families and the tribes the fact that
to be the answer to all of America's problems. I
expanded by more than 6 percent a year for
the children involved were Indians covered by
don't But I do think that increased economic
three consecutive years. Between 1960 and
ICWA procedures. Some Indian tribes were
growth is a necessary. if not sufficient, condi-
1973, inflation-adjusted growth averaged 4.1 per-
accused of retroactively conveying member-
tion to solving many of the most serious prob-
cent a year. For three straight years after the
ship on birth parents who wanted to change
lems facing us today-from poverty and home-
Reagan tax-rate reductions took effect, the real
their minds long after the adoption placement
lessness, racial strife, crime and welfare
economy expanded by almost 5 percent a year.
was established with their voluntary consent.
dependency to the federal budget deficit and
Between 1983 and 1989. real annual growth
In most cases, because Indian tribes typical-
our failing social insurance programs.
averaged 3.9 percent.
ly were not made aware of an adoption until
Unfortunately, President Clinton seems to hold
We now have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity
very late in the placement, tribes faced a
greatly diminished expectations for our country.
to unleash our economy from 60 years of accu-
tragic choice: Either intervene late in the
The Clinton advisers embrace the myth that the
mulated policy mistakes by throwing out the
proceeding and disrupt the certainty sought
economy cannot expand more than about 2
Internal Revenue Code and replacing it with a
by the adoptive family and child, or stay out of
percent to 2.5 percent a year without igniting
low, single-rate, simple tax system that is pro-
it and lose all possibility of involvement in the
inflation. The president, I believe, has such
growth and pro-family. As was pointed out by the
life of the Indian child. The result has been
anemic expectations for the American economy
National Commission on Economic Growth and
great uncertainty and beartache on all sides.
because be confuses innate limitations on our
Tax Reform (TRC), which I had the privilege to
No matter the outcome in each of these cases,
economy's ability to grow with self-imposed
chair, fundamental overhaul of the tax system
the Indian children have been the losers.
shacides, many of his own making, that impede it.
would accelerate real economic expansion to at
Several of these cases recently gained nation-
Even after taking into account yesterday's
least 4 percent a year for five or six years.
al attention. One involves the efforts of a
anomalous blip in the GDP. statistics showing
Such an acceleration of growth would not be
non-Indian Ohio couple, Jim and Colette Rost,
second-quarter growth of 4.2 percent, the econo-
inflationary, because the expansion wouldn't be
who have been trying to adopt twin daugh-
my has managed to grow on a real. inflation-
induced artificially by unwarranted monetary ex-
ters-now nearly 3 years old-placed with
adjusted basis by only 25 percent a year since
pansion at the Fed but rather would be generated
them at birth by an adoption attorney who failed
the president's 1993 tax increase. There is a
wide consensus among economists, including Fed
by unleashing the pent-up productive capacity of
to disclose that the children were Indians.
Last year some adoption advocates began to
Chairman Alan Greenspan, that the two-
the economy. In fact. if we raised economic growth
use cases such as these to build political
something treadmill economy will resume with
capacity by restructuring the tax system. it would
support for sweeping amendments that would
growth below 2.5 percent in the second half of
become incumbent upon the Fed to permit the
the year.
economy to perform up to its full potential.
eviscerate ICWA. The Indian tribes believed
The Chinton administration's vision of Ameri-
After the catch-up was complete, the kind of tax
they were under siege, battling distorted news
ca's economic future continues 3 be 2.3 per-
system recommended by TRC would help ensure
stories about what ICWA does and does not
do, while having to fend off efforts to weaken
cent annual growth as far as the eye can see.
that our economy permanently maintained a great-
the law. By mid-1995 the rhetoric heightened.
How pitiful.
er capacity to expand. According to the best
It is unpardonable for the White House to sell
available research, we could expect the long-term,
and positions hardened.
What happened next is a testament to how the
the American economy short like this. Presi-
non-inflationary growth capacity of the economy to
dent Kennedy gave the country an ambitious
increase by at least 40 percent, probably more.
most intractable of disputes can be resolved by
voices of reason and people of goodwill.
goal to achieve within a decade-putting a man
Recall that the extended periods of economic
on the moon and returning him safely to earth.
expansion in the 1960s and 1980s followed tax
Last summer, representatives on both sides
left the battle lines to try to find common
Our next president must inspire the nation in a
reforms that were far less potent than those
ground. Their initiative began a year-long
similar fashion. That is why I suggest that we
prescribed by the TRC. At the very least, there-
process of negotiation between attorneys for
establish a national goal to double the size of the
fore, we can realistically expect to maintain the
economy, with price stability, by the end of the
historical, long-run real growth rate of 3.2 percent
non-Indian adoptive families and representa-
first decade of the 21st century.
a year established during the post-World War II
tives of the Indian tribes to develop consensus
The slow-growth myth contains a grain of
era. In fact, under a totally restructured tax
amendments to ICWA.
truth. Narrowly speaking, under current tax
system. we could anticipate exceeding that mark.
What they achieved reflects a detailed, but
and regulatory policy, the naysayers are correct
I wonder what President Clinton would say
not fragile, compromise. Its strength lies both
that we cannot hope to grow much beyond 2.3
about a Republican platform plank that read:
in how it was developed and what it embodies.
percent a year. And, if the Federal Reserve
"Free competitive enterprise is the most cre-
The attorney for the Rost family was involved
Board were to attempt to raise growth through
ative and productive form of economic
in all the negotiations, along with representa-
"easy money," the result surely would be infla-
the world has seen. A new Republican adminis-
tives of the National Indian Child Welfare
tion and lower real growth in the future.
tration will reject the prevailing philosophy of
Association and the National Congress of
But ruling out loose monetary policy as a
economic slowdown We Republicans believe
American Indians (NCAD, the largest inter-
means of getting America growing again need
that during the next administration, our economy
tribal organization.
not consign us irreversibly to "two-something"
can and must grow at an average rate of 5
After extensive debate at its June, mid-year
growth rates into the indefinite future. The
percent, more than twice the rate we have
convention in Tulsa, NCAI endorsed the com-
intrinsic growth capacity of our economy is well
experienced during this past administration. We
promise. It also was endorsed by the Ameri-1
above 2 percent. Historically, when federal tax
pledge ourselves to policies that will achieve this
can Academy of Adoption Attorneys and the
and regulatory policy were not getting in the
goal without inflation."
Academy of California Adoption Attorneys.
way, our economy managed to expand more than
I didn't write that platform language: I just
Many of my colleagues-including Sen. John
3 percent a year on average, and some of us
changed the name of the party in it to make a
Glenn (D-Ohio) and Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-
believe it could grow at least 4 percent annually
point. In fact, the above language came almost
Ohio)-who initially supported more far-
into the next century.
verbatim from the Democratic Platform of 1960.
reaching changes to the ICWA have indicated
Typically, the economy gets knocked off its
Neither party could go wrong on the thresh-
their support for this compromise.
long-run, three-plus growth path into recession
old of the 21st century by placing in its platform
when the Fed becomes overly restrictive with
PHOTOCOPY
the same economic vision for America that John
monetary policy, when Congress and the presi-
THE WASHINGTON POST
F. Kennedy's party had. And neither party
dent unwisely raise taxes or when government
could go wrong by committing itself to a funda-
PRESERVATION
FRIDAY. AUGUST 2. 1996
cripples the economy with enervating regula-
mental overhaul of the tax system as a principal
tions. If policymakers persist in some debilitating
of realizing that vision.
combination of these three
kes, as they
have from 1990 to 1996, we end up stuck in a
The writer is co-director of Em
slow-growth rut.
America.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
THE WASHINGTON
FRIDAY, 2. 1996
Spying on Nanny
Ridiculous and irresponsible: These
as they grow older. Certainly, Rag-
ers who feel "demeaned" by what they
are the only two words I can use to
gedy Ann with an electronic eye was
perceive as "mistrust" by their em-
describe the parents who are now
not something I grew up with as a
ployers need to understand that their
bugging their children's toys to spy
child.
jobs involve a level of employer con-
on their babysitters [front page. July
TODD B. MORGAN
cern that IS, quite appropriately. un-
18). Is it any wonder our society
Leonardtown
matched in any other enterprise. The
places higher values on capitalism and
potential costs of an accident that
technology than on the family? If par-
We are staunch supporters of per-
may occur when the child-care-work-
ents are having such a hard time
sonal privacy-whether from unrea-
er may be sleeping on the job are
finding a day-care provider, then they
sonable government intrusion under
intolerable. Nannies should learn to
should do the responsible thing and
the Fourth Amendment or the some-
live with the understanding that they
stay home and raise their children.
times overzealous or paternalistic prob-
might legitimately be observed at any
Forget the argument of making
ings of private employers and others.
time and not take offense.
ends meet. A full-time nanny certainly
Nevertheless, we found nothing but
The nanny association's claim that
isn't the solution. Perhaps it means
non-issues raised by the arguments of
checking references obviates the
canceling a few vacations. If the par-
the nanny associations and the ACLU
need for monitoring is absurd. As the
ents' time is so valuable, they ought
in "Home Alone With the Baby. a
association would have it, it would be
to be spending it with the child, not
Hidden Camera" [front page, July 18].
impossible for prior employers to
reviewing videotapes at night to see
The ACLU representative's sug-
know whether the quality of a refer-
what went on at home during the day.
gestion that "spying on a professional
enced worker's supervision lessened
The litany of quality time over
child-care worker is demeaning and
substantially each time the prior em-
quantity time does not hold water,
unethical" is without foundation. In
ployer left the house.
nor do I ever believe it did except to
many lines of employment, workers
We submit that it is the Fourth
the self-righteous who use it. Selfish-
are routinely observed on the job by
Amendment rights of the parent/resi-
ness does. Perhaps what we have
supervisors. To be sure. workers usu-
dent-"to be secure in their persons,
done is instilled the wrong values in
ally know they are being watched.
papers, houses, and effects"-that
ourselves as we chase the golden pelt
However, the quality of the work
would be violated by any governmen-
and expect that our children are re-
product of most employees is measur-
tal restriction on using hidden cam-
ceiving, or will receive, the benefit of
able even when they are not watched,
eras (or voice recorders) in one's own
our endeavors.
whereas, with child care. the quality
home for the purpose of protecting
I wonder if these are the ideals
of the service inheres entirely in what
one's own children.
these parents will teach their children
occurs when the parent is away.
PETER and CHRISTINA SKLAREW
(trust no one, spy on your neighbor)
More important, child-care work-
Bethesda
The Real EPA
Animals Killed
On the Roads
Responding to The Post's story about
made during the reorganization will im-
my criticisms of the U.S. Environmental
prove science in the agency.
Thanks to The Post for doing a
Protection Agency June 27], Terry Yo-
We are increasingly frustrated over
story on the much neglected question
sie, former director of EPA's Science
environmental science trying to catch up
of animals killed on our roads ("Arf,
Advisory Board, espoused the official
with and justify the agency's rules and
Art and Away," Style, July 15]. It has
party line: Upper administrative levels
regulations, rather than leading the pro-
been estimated that some 400 million
are being streamlined, bureaucratic red
cess. Faced with court-imposed deadlines
tape is dissipating, scientists and front-
and pressures to regulate, EPA scientists
vertebrate animals are killed by cars
line managers are being empowered. and
need resources and support from Wash-
each year in the United States.
science is finally being steered in the
ington to rectify at least the most glaring
I face the problem of road-kills
right direction letters, July 22]. The real
scientific deficiencies in proposed rules
regularly on my five-mile commute to
world of EPA's science organization,
before they are promulgated.
work in Gaithersburg, which includes
however. is one where you could count
Contrary to what was implied in Mr.
a two-mile stretch along a winding,
on one hand the number of employees
Yosie's letter, I support efforts to achieve
forested road whose 25 mph speed
who have been moved out of Washington
a better balance between internal and
limit is routinely exceeded by burried
and where upper-level managers explain,
external research, and the integration of
or impatient drivers. Since April 251
during visits with scientists in the field,
public health and environmental issues.
have encountered 22 animals either
why less red tape and empowerment at
Finally, I did not recommend creating a
new bureaucracy in addition to EPA.
dead or mortally wounded along this
the lowest levels will probably never
happen.
When environmental regulations can be
stretch, including deer, fox, snapping
My article published in Nature (June
better founded in sound science. EPA
and box turtles, rat snakes, squirrels
27) was reviewed by leading environ-
itself should be elevated to Cabinet sta-
and opossums. An adult opossum I
mental scientists both inside and outside
tus. Then other existing environmental
rescued turned out to have eight ba-
EPA. Nothing surfaced to corroborate
programs in federal agencies and depart-
bies in her pouch: all were rehabilitat-
what Mr. Yose characterized as a deep
ments should be brought under it for
ed and released by the Chesapeake
support within the scientific community
better and more cost-effective coordina-
Wildlife Sanctuary.
for EPA's recently reorganized Office of
tion.
If we all obey speed limits and keep
Research and Development, although. as
DAVID L. LEWIS
alert to wildlife, we can make a signif-
I pointed out in my article, some changes
Athens, Ga.
icant difference. Just a one percent
reduction in U.S. road-kills translates
into a half-million animals spared un-
He
timely and often grisly deaths.
JONATHAN BALCOMBE
In her Outlook article, "Hit and Ms.:
that White meant to include women as
Germantown
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If Ms. Fadiman truly regards White as
stab at solving the language gender prob-
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POSSIBLE ADOPTION ACTIONS
September 9, 1996
GOAL 1: Increase the number of children who are adopted. Set numerical targets so
that the number of children with special needs who are adopted over the next three years
would be doubled. This would eliminate the backlog of waiting children.
ACTIONS:
1.
Planning and Technical Assistance. Work with states that commit to meet numerical
targets by providing technical assistance on the development of outcome measures
and automated data systems to help reach these goals. Estimated cost: $10
million/year.
2.
Non-financial Incentives for Improved Performance. Recognize successful states
through special certificates or White House events and foster competition Iby issuing
an annual state-by-state report card.
3.
Financial Incentives. Increase reimbursement for adoption subsidies for special
needs adoptions by $1,000 in states that reach or come within 5% of reaching of the
annual target. Estimated cost: $50 to $100 million over 3 years.
Raise federal match to states for recruiting adoptive families from 50% to 75%.
Estimated cost: $375 million over 5 years, assuming states continue to spend at
current levels for reoruitment.
GOAL 2: Find permanent homes for waiting children within one year.
ACTIONS:
1.
Statutory Changes. Under current law, states are required to hold a dispositional
hearing 18 months after a child has been placed in foster care. Develop legislation
to shorten that period to 12 months.
2.
Regulatory Changes. Currently, the federal government requires that "reasonable
efforts" be made to prevent placement and reunify families before a parent's rights
can be logally terminated. Clarify and expand definition of reasonable efforts so that
it allows arrangement for a permanent home for a child in a timely manner.
Change "dispositional hearings" to "permanency planning" hearings by clarifying
that planning can include referrals for termination of parental rights or to legal
guardianship or other permanent placement.
3.
Financial Assistance. Make funds available to states for a "Removing Barriers to
Permanency Project" to identify barriers, propose and implement solutions, and
target funds to place children who have been waiting particularly long times and to
implement the Multi-Ethnic Placement Act. Estimated cost: $30 million.
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SUMMARY OF IDEAS FROM MEETING OF
THE FIRST LADY AND FOUNDATION LEADERS
ON ADOPTION
This document summarizes the ideas discussed in a meeting on adoption that the
First Lady held on
with foundation leaders. It outlines the "challenges" or goals that
the group raised, the framework for thinking about those challenges, and the role that
different sectors of the community can play in meeting them. The first three challenges
address the immediate need to remove barriers to adoption so that the tens of thousands of
children waiting in the foster care system can be placed in permanent homes. The last
challenge reflects the concern raised by a number of the participants that in addition to the
urgent agenda of reducing the backlog of children waiting to be adopted today, we must set
a longer-term goal of building capacity in communities to keep children from entering the
system in the future.
CHALLENGE:
TO INCREASE PUBLIC AWARENESS AND
UNDERSTANDING ABOUT WAITING CHILDREN AND
ADOPTION
There is a lack of public understanding about the children in the adoption and foster care
systems, about their experiences in these systems, and about what can be done to find
permanent homes for them more quickly.
Framework:
We need to describe the problem as "finding families for waiting kids" rather than
"finding kids for waiting families".
The term "special needs" should be rethought because it does not speak to the
positive qualities of children.
Public awareness efforts are needed to help people focus on children in the system
and to foster accountability on an ongoing basis, not simply in response to a
particular tragedy.
The impression that child protection is at odds with family preservation vilifies
families.
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Action:
Foundation Role
Develop a strategy to educate the public about the needs of vulnerable
families and waiting children.
Support and disseminate research findings that will help the public understand
the complexities of decision-making related to foster care and adoption.
Community Role [or is this the professional community role]
[PHRASE THESE AS SUGGESTED ROLES not problems]
Government Role
Use the "bully pulpit" to increase public awareness about adoption and
waiting children.
CHALLENGE:
TO REFORM THE COURT SYSTEM
Lengthy, frustrating and dehumanizing involvement with the courts can be a significant
deterrent to adoption for parents and can further traumatize already vulnerable children.
Framework:
Courts with jurisdiction over family matters often do not have sufficient stature or
resources. Judges and attorneys may not be adequately trained in child development
and family issues, and frequent staffing rotations can mean that they are not able to
develop expertise.
Judges and attorneys need to feel comfortable and empowered to both act as
advocates for children and to make decisions about permanent placements for
children.
Action:
Foundation Role
Evaluate and disseminate the many examples of individual judges expediting
decision-making by minimizing continuances, monitoring calendars and
taking other need steps.
Take a systematic look at state policies and practices.
Fund a child welfare commissioner who holds the position for an
2
extended period of time. Is this right?
Legal Community Role
Think through the subtleties of permanency and look at different options for
guardianship and creative custody arrangements that have been devised in
divorce proceedings.
Increase the number of court appointed special advocates (CASAs) and
guardians ad litem (GALs).
Government Role
Stimulate and disseminate information on innovative practices.
Models:
Cincinnati model -- separate family court system -- 50% of children leave foster care
within one year.
Grand Rapids model -- court links family preservation more explicitly to
permanency, provides subsidies liberally, uses mediation.
Video for National Association of Attorneys General and others in legal community.
California guidelines on the length of judicial rotations and training.
CHALLENGE: TO ELIMINATE THE BACKLOG OF CHILDREN WAITING FOR
PERMANENT HOMES
While dramatic social and systemic improvements are needed to decrease the number of
children entering the foster care system, it is critical that we simultaneously eliminate the
backlog of tens of thousands of children who are currently waiting for a permanent family.
Framework:
For some number of children in foster care, no amount of family preservation will
help. We should think about foster parenting as pre-adoption.
We need to address the conflict between support for family preservation and
permanency planning that has historically slowed placements of children.
We should more consistently and proactively support relatives.
3
Aggressive recruitment of families is key.
Young children make up an increasing percentage of the caseload, but P.L. 96-272
was not framed in a developmentally sensitive way (i.e., same time frames apply to
children of all ages). Need to shift mindset to up-front planning for young children
(e.g., "fost-adopt").
The system does not identify and track children adequately.
There is a lack of accountability in the system.
The lack of consensus on goals and outcomes in foster care and adoption are a
barrier to effective system reform.
Action:
Foundation Role
Study "fost-adopt" programs across the country and replicate where
appropriate.
Help develop curricula and train caseworkers.
Community Role
Ensure rotation of child welfare directors.
Legal Community Role
Make it a goal of the state bar to place half of the waiting children in the
state by a certain time.
Increase the number of CASAs and GALs.
Develop creative options and definitions for legal guardianship and different
forms of adoption.
Support and encourage community efforts to recruit adoptive families.
Government Role
Grant waivers to experiment with guardianship arrangements, as in the
Delaware child welfare waiver.
Work with states on goals and reward states for placing children more
quickly.
Improve information systems to track children in system.
Provide technical assistance and guidance to states and communities on
increasing recruitment of adoptive families.
4
Change definition of "reasonable efforts" through legislation so that it focuses
on both permanency and reunification.
Models:
New Zealand model -- involving communities and whole families in making good
decisions.
Alabama and Oregon -- effort to train caseworkers not to think of themselves as part
of a "big system with slots".
CHALLENGE: TO EMPOWER AND SUPPORT FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES
Children come into the foster care and adoption systems for a number of reasons, including
a lack of community supports, family stresses, and the problems of poverty and substance
abuse. Responding to the needs of children requires not only an adequate child welfare
system, but also the strengthening of communities' capacity to care for their own children.
Framework:
The problems of disadvantaged communities will not be fixed with only limited
financial incentives and reform.
Specific roles for churches, schools, hospitals, etc. are critical.
Community infrastructure must include post-adoptive services.
There is a difference between service needs (mental health programs, jobs) and
activity needs (after-school programs, mentoring). Traditionally, communities take
responsibility for activity needs. A shift in mindset is needed to encourage
communities to invest their own resources in service provision.
Welfare reform has the potential to affect community organization and infrastructure
dramatically.
Action:
Foundation Role
Make flexible grants that compensate for the narrowness of public sector
support.
Use ability to undertake long-term projects to focus on infrastructure
development as opposed to time-limited demonstrations.
5
Disseminate model practices for private businesses.
Community Role
Take leadership and establish community-based decisionmaking.
Build the will to find and develop alternative placements and permanent
homes.
Invest in providing "services", not only "activities".
Play an active role in developing and implementing state welfare reform
plans.
Business Sector Role
Institute policies to support families (like HASBRO), including paying legal
fees and medical costs, providing family leave, and reimbursing families for
mandatory home study programs.
Address the need for jobs in the context of welfare reform and community-
building (the Business Leadership Council and the Families and Work
Institute are convening to do this).
Government Role
Use Enterprise Zones and Enterprise Communities to invest in community
efforts to place waiting children.
Work with states and communities on welfare reform implementation to
address issues of job creation and community development.
Encourage states and communities to use flexibility currently available in
statute and regulation to address local concerns.
Models:
Family Investment Trust/"Caring Communities" -- system of support in which the
community determines its own needs.
"Starting Points" Campaign -- focus on developmental issues.
HASBRO's family policies.
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Suggested names for phone bank
ECONOMIC ISSUES
x
Mary Jo Bane -- USG/HHS Asst. Sec for Families and Children;
poverty
X
Maria Berriozabal -- poverty; welfare; also empowerment; Texas;
Latina
Barbara Blum -- president, Adams National Bank; D.C.
Ellen Bravo -- exec.dir. "9 - 5"; workplace issues; pay equity
x Ida Castro -- USG/DOL; Working Women Count Honor Roll; (LATINA)
Elizabeth Coleman -- CEO Maidenform; Atlanta/NYC
X Marian Wright Edelman -- CHildren's Defense Fund; poverty
XEV Ehrlich -- USG/C unwaged work measurement, value; stats
XConnie Evans -- microenterprise; The Women's Self-Help Employment
Project; (Af-AMER); Chicago
Betty Friedan --- downsizing; workplace issues shorter work week;
flex time; older women and work; D.C.
Ellen Haas -- USG/USDA; poverty; resources
Heidi Hartmann -- Center for Women's Policy Research; welfare;
poverty; employment
Sherrye Henry -- USG/SBA; entrepreneurship
x Ginger Lew -- USG/SBA; business; unwaged work; (Asian-Amer)
Julienne Malveaux -- economist; writer; unwaged work (AF-AMER)
X Kirsten Moy -- USG/T CDFI Fund; Microenterprise; (Asian-Amer)
Betsy Meyers -- Small business
x Karen Nussbaum -- AFL/CIO; workplace; family-work
x Jan Piercy USG/World Bank; international economic policy
development
Rene Redwood -- USG/DOL; Glass Ceiling Commission: (AF-AMER)
Margaret Richardson -- Director, Internal Revenue Service
Alice Rivlin -- Federal Reserve Board
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X
Martha Ritchie -- USG/ Bureau of Census; statistics; unwaged work
Susan Bianchi sand -- National Commission on Pay Equity; D.C.
Muriel Siebert -- NY Stock Exchange, investment, Republican
X Sally Shelton -- USG/AID; development
X
Linda Tarr-Whelan -- US rep to UNCSW; Center for Policy
Alternatives
x Marie Wilson -- president, MS. Foundation; NYC; in-town
(also for empowerment; leadership;girls)
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HEALTH and ENVIRONMENT
Bella Abzug -- Women's Environment and Development Organization,
also empowermnet and international
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo -- USG/EPA; environmental justice; (Af-
Amer)
Gina Trotter Betts -- former American Nurses Assn.
Susan Blumenthal -- USG/HHS; women's health general
Jo Ivey Boufford, M.D. -- Dep. Asst. Secretary of Health
Sarah Craven -- CEDPA; reproductive and maternal health
Peggy Curlin -- CEDPA; reproductive and maternal health
x
Nils Daulaire, M.D. -- USG/AID; international
Mary Fisher -- AIDS, Republican
Patsy Fleming -- USG/EOP; AIDS policy
Adrienne Germain -- Int'l Women's Health Coalition; reproductive
and maternal health
Bernadine Healy, M.D. -- former head NIH under Bush; Republican
Ruth Kirchstein, M.D. --acting director of NIH
Susan Love, M.D. -- UCLA Breast Center
Ellen Marshall -- PEW, reproductive and maternal health
Jean Nelson -- USG/EPA
Vivian Pinn, M.D. -- Office of Research on Women's Health
Margaret Pollack -- DOS/Office of Population
Janet Scott -- president, National Black Women's Health Coalition
Donna Shalala -- USG/HHS; lifespan; overview
Christine Spain -- President's Council on Physical Fitness
Emily Tynes -- Communications Consortium; Health and reproductive
health; (Af-Amer)
Fran Visco -- breast cancer
:from Healthy People 2000's Council
EMPOWERMENT
Louise Akers -- National Religious Women's Leadership Conference
Madeleine K. Albright -- U.S. Permanent Rep. to UN
Gina Amaro -- Sistah Project; Catalyst; LAtina; Youth
Sara Ancona -- former Beijing intern; Hill job; youth; D.C.
X
Maria Berriozabal -- grassroots community work; mentoring girls
Veronica Biggins -- leadership; (Af-Amer); Atlanta
Maureen Bunyan -- media (Af-Amer)
Iris Burnett -- USA Network; media
Anne Bryant --- Nat'l Assn School Boards; education; girls
Lynn Cutler -- Kamber Group, communications, political
participation
Marie Colton -- former pro tem leader of North Carolina legis.
Preema Mathai Davis -- YWCA; girls; political participation;
(Asian-Amer)
Anita Perez Ferguson -- National Women's Political Caucus (Lat)
Pat Goldman -- Former head of WISH, Republican
Ellen Goodman -- media; women's movement
Judith Heumann -- USG/ED -- disabled women's in society
Ruth Mandel -- Eagleton Institute; political participation
Judy Mann -- media; women's movement
Marjorie Margolies Mezvinsky -- Women's Campaign Fund
Marilyn Monahan -- National Education Assn.
Irene Natividad -- political participation (Asian-Amer)
Alyce Nelson -- Interagency intern; youth
New Moon Twins -- teenager sisters from Minn., edit magazine
Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- women's movement; leadership
Roberta Ramos -- past Pres; Ameroican Bar Assn.
empowerment
X
Maureen Reagan -- women political participation and leadership
x
Donna shavlik -- higher education; leadership
Gloria Steinem -- women's empowerment
x Isabell Stewart -- Girls, Inc.; girls; (Af-Amer) i NYC
Nancy Woodhull -- Freedom Forum; media
Amy Woods -- former Beijing, interagency intern
Harriett Woods -- former Lt. Gov. Missiouri; NWPC
Judy Woodruff -- media
VIOLENCE (SECURITY)
*
Gail Abarbanel -- Rape Treatment Center; Santa Monica, Ca.
X
Aileen Adams -- USG/DoJ; rape; crime; domestic violence; victims
Carolyn Becraft -- USG/DOD
Sarah Brady -- gun control
Betty Bumpers -- Peace Links
Charlotte Bunch -- Center for Women's Global Leadership; violence
as a human rights issue;
Bonnie Campbell -- USG/DOJ, Office on Violence against Women
*
Vicki Coffey -- ex.dir.; Chicago Abused Women's Coalition;
member; Advisory Council on Violence Against Women; Chicago
Betty Dooley -- WREI, Women's Research and Education Institute,
project on women and military
Rev. Marie Fortune -- ex,dir. Center for the Prevention of
Sexual and Domestic Violence, United Church of Christ, Seattle
Wilma Mankiller -- former chief, Cherokee Nation (Okla)
Phyllis Oakley -- USG/DOS refugees
Nancy Rubin -- Women's Commission on Refugee Women and Children
refugees; women in armed conflict
Barbara Smith -- Inernational Rescue
*
Esta Soler -- Ex.Dir., Family Violence Prevention Fund
Rose Styron -- same as Rubin
Judith Hicks Stiehm -- lecturer; Army War College; conflict
resolution
Susan Taylor -- Editor in Chief, Essence Magazine
Marna Tucker -- American Bar Assn.
Cora Weiss -- peace
Rosalyn Weinmann -- Senior VP, Broadcast Standards and
Practices, NBC
HUMAN RIGHTS
Laila Al-Marayati -- Muslim; religious/cultural tolerance; L.A.
X
Kit Cosby -- Bahai'i; CEDAW; D.C.
X
Mary Curtin -- USG/DOS
X Peter Eicher -- USG/DOS international human rights treaties;
X
Geraldine Ferraro -- U.S. Ambassador to UN Commission on Human
Rights
Felice Gaer -- Jacob Blaustien Institute
Antonia Hernandez - MALDEF, L.A.; Latina
LaShawn Jefferson -- Human Rights Watch, youth, Af -Amer
Betty Bao Lord -- Freedom House; Asian Amer
X Gay McDougall -- Internatinal Human Rights Law Group
X Jeff Meer -- USG/DOS
X Richard Regan -- NSC
X Pat Rengal -- Amnesty Int'l; CEDAW; D.C.
Eric Schwartz -- National Security Council
X John Shattuck -- Asst, Sec. State - Democracu, Human Rights and
Labor
<
Dave Stewart -- USG/DOS; CEDAW
INTERNATIONAL
Carol Bellamy -- UNICEF
Vivian Derryck -- African American Institute; development; (Af-
Am)
Arvonne Fraser --
x Kate Grant -- USG/AID
Karen Hessel -- Ecumenical Network
Margaret Lycette -- USG/AID, Women in Development
Judith McClennon -- ICRW; former US Rep to UNCSW; Republican
Jill Merrick -- ICRW
Mary Purcell -- AAUW international
Maria Riley -- Center of Concern
Marge Schuler -- director Women, Law and Development
X Sally Shelton -- USG/AID
Pam Sparr -- United Methodist. Women's Division
x Julia Taft -- InterAction; development; empowerment
X Kathy Hendrix -- DOS/IO President's Interagency Council
of
Melinda Kimble -- DOS/IO
X
Sharon Kotok -- DOS/IO
Theresa Loar -- DOS/President's Interagency Council
Bisa Williams-Manigault -- US/UN NYC
ADOPTION
MONTH
Sponsored by the
North American Council on Adoptable Children
970 Raymond Ave., #106/St. Paul, MN 55114-1149; 612-644-3036; fax 644-9848
Funded through the DHHS Administration for Children and Families,
1996
Grant # 90-CO-0774
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
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Biographies and Contact Information
for Children Featured A the
Adoption Month 1996 Poster
Meet Some Special Kids
ADOPTION
MONTH
1996
Biographies and Contact Information
for Children Featured in the
Adoption Month 1996 Poster
Adoption Month 1996
Sponsored by the
North American Council on Adoptable Children
(NACAC)
Funded through an Adoption Opportunities Grant (#90-CO-0774)
from the Children's Bureau,
DHHS Administration for Children, Youth, and Families
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Voices from the Heart : Personal Stories from
Adoptive Families
VOICES
FROM THE
HEART:
Personal Stories from
Adoptive Families
LOVE
Adopire
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Hobbies and intere
ning except what's
VANDORA: MILD MANNERED, WARM SMILE; LIKES TO BE INCLUDED
AND MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH;
most important
a
ermanent home and
COORDINATED; ENJOYS SF
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loving family. Open your heart
and make
ANTONECIA: QUIET; LIKES SEWING PROJECTS
ANTONECIA,
12
ANTONETTE: ENJOYS MEANINGFUL CONVERSATION WITH ADULTS
HE LOVES OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES, FARMS,
WANTS TO BE A RODEO CLOWN
a dream come true.
To learn more about these and other waiting children,
contact the National Adoption Center at
1-800-TO-ADOPT
HE IS AFFECTIONATE AND HIGHLY
ANTONE
GARRETT, 8
TEXAS
WYOMING
MARYLANI
OTHER CHILDREN JAMES: SOMEWHAT SHY;
LIKES GAMES AND TOYS
PLAYING SOFTBALL, SWIMMING, RATTLES, AND FEELING THE ENJOYS BASKETBALL, VIDEO GAMES, AND LIKES ANIMALS
AND ENERGETIC
LAKECIA, 9
LAKECIA: AFFECTIONATE; ENJOYS SINGING AND PLAYING WITH
LIKES TO GO FOR WALKS AND SHOOT MINIATURE BASKETBALL
HE IS FRIENDLY, HAPPY, AND
FRIENDLY AND AFFECTIONATE; ENJOYS
AND TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS
SHE ENJOYS MUSIC, TOYS,
SUN ON HER FACE
HE IS ARTICULATE AND CREATIVE;
COMIC BOOKS, AND SCIENCE
SHE IS FRIENDLY, PERSONABLE,
THOMAS: RESPONSIBLE, NICE,
AS
JAMES, 7
PATRICK,
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Adoption
older kids, able-bodied kids,
not-so-able-bodied kids, kids
American Council
is
with brothers and sisters, bright
on Adoptable
kid
kids, kids with intellectual dis-
abilities, Native American kids,
Children
stuff.
Latino kids, African American
kids, Asian kids, all kinds of kids.
Kids who need parents.
And kids who cannot speak out
for themselves.
The North
American Council on Adoptable
Children wants you to know
about these kids and about our
work on their behalf.
The North American Council on Adoptable Children
HO WE ARE:
public education, special events, and
Name
W
The North American Council on
Adoption Awareness Month across the
Phone (
)
Adoptable Children (NACAC) is a
United States and Canada; and
nonprofit, broad-based coalition
strong, consistent, directed advocacy on
Organization/Parent Group
of volunteer adoptive parent support and
behalf of children and families, including
Address
citizen advocacy groups, agencies, and car-
federal testimony on parental leave, medical-
City
ing individuals committed to meeting the
ly fragile infants, post-legal adoption service
needs of waiting children in the United
needs, subsidy, and recruitment of minority
State/Province/Code
States and Canada.
parents for waiting minority children.
Individual/family membership:
$30 (U.S.) $35 (Cdn) annual
HAT WE DO:
$75 (U.S.) $90 (Cdn) three-year
Activities
Parent group membership:
include:
$30 (U.S.) $35 (Cdn) annual
$75 (U.S.) $90 (Cdn) three-year
a quarterly newsletter called Adoptalk, devoted
Organizational membership:
to current issues in adoption, foster care, par-
$150 (U.S.) $165 (Cdn) annual
enting, and child advocacy;
$400 (U.S.) $450 (Cdn) three-year
the largest annual national conference on
An additional tax deductible contribution of
adoption issues, uniting the concerns and
is enclosed. Please use it where most need-
resources of over 1000 experienced adoptive
ed to bring children and families together.
parents, child welfare professionals, and
Please send additional information about
advocates;
NACAC and its work.
education of court and child welfare personnel
about effective permanency planning models
I'd like more information about parent group
and the benefits of special needs adoption;
activity in my area.
research on a variety of critical topics including
Please make check payable and mail to:
fiscal and programmatic analysis of state adop-
NACAC
tion assistance programs, and a state-by-state
EUR AGENDA:
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comparison of key aspects of termination of
We believe the goal of permanence for
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parental rights statutes;
all children is realistic, cost-effective, and
FAX 612-644-9848
adoptive parent leadership training, parent
clearly in their best interest. Collectively,
E-mail: [email protected]
group development and assistance to a net-
as concerned citizens, parents, decision makers,
NACAC is a member of
work of over 500 local organizations through-
and advocates, our impact and ability to effect
Children's Charities of America,
out the United States and Canada that work to
change for vulnerable children is dramatic.
part of the
provide awareness of adoption issues, family
Together we can make a difference. The children
Combined Federal Campaign (CFC).
Our CFC code number is 1531.
support programs, administrative monitoring,
are waiting. Please join us in response.
and recruitment of prospective parents;
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ADOPTION
MONTH
Sponsored by the
North American Council on Adoptable Children
970 Raymond Ave., #106/St. Paul, MN 55114-1149; 612-644-3036; fax 644-9848
Funded through the DHHS Administration for Children and Families,
1996
Grant # 90-CO-0774
September 19, 1996
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Office of the First Lady
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington D.C. 20500
Dear Mrs. Clinton:
The North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC) is working to increase
public awareness about U.S. foster children who wait for permanent adoptive families
and we'd like your help.
As part of a two-year adoption awareness campaign funded by a grant from the
Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families, we
are organizing the first-ever national gathering of waiting children to celebrate National
Adoption Month this November. The foster children who appear on the enclosed
adoption awareness poster will gather in Orlando, Florida to share their hopes for a
permanent family with members of the media. These children come to the event as
representatives of all the children in their home state who wait for a family.
The event will take place at 10 am on Monday, November 18, 1996 at Universal Studios
Florida. We will gather outside the E.T. Adventure facility for a short program. The story
of E.T. beautifully conveys the significance of "home" and the emotions of attachment
and loss involved in the long and difficult journey from foster care to a permanent family.
We would be honored if you would join us at this event and share a few words on behalf
of waiting children and adoptive families. Also invited are E.T. creator and adoptive
parent Steven Spielberg, his wife Kate Capshaw and HHS Secretary Donna Shalala.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Joe joeknoll Kroll
Executive Director
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NORTH
AMERICAN
COUNCIL
ON
ADOPTABLE
CHILDREN
ALL PHOTOS BY PAM HASEGAWA
ANNUAL
REPORT
1995
TURDAY, AUGUST 10. 1996
THE WASHINGTON POST
erry
Asks
GAO Report Critical of Agriculture Officials
inspire school children to eat healthier
ceeded the government's allowed food
BI Probe
By Bill McAllister
Washington-based advocacy group, be-
strugt Pint St.01 Writer
lunches. Haas has defended the pro-
and lodging rates for 35 of 45 out-of-
fore President Clinton nominated Haas
gram. but earlier this year had to apol-
town trips she took between Jan. 1,
to head Agriculture's Food and Con-
Agriculture Undersecretary Ellen
ogize to the committee for what the
1994, and Feb. 29.
sumer Service.
f Leaks
Haas frequently exceeded per diem
GAO described as a $25,000 contract
The Agriculture Department con-
According to the GAO, Segal-Goodis
rates on government travel expenses
that was improperly awarded to a
tested the GAO complaint, contending
inflated both her earnings and her aca-
and hired a former associate at an in-
Democratic pollster.
that as one of the department's top of-
demic background to win an appoint-
flated salary to run a controversial
Haas was reported to be traveling
ficers Haas had authority to exceed the
ment as a GS-15, Step 10 at an annual
By John Mintz
school lunch nutrition program. the
yesterday and could not be reached for
government maximums for lodging and
salary of $90,777, rather than a Step 1
Washington Post Staff Writer
General Accounting Office said in a re-
comment. Her press office did not re-
food. In six cases cited by the GAO,
at $71,664.
efense Secretary William
port released yesterday.
turn telephone calls. Efforts to locate
Haas stayed at five-star hotels, running
It said the Food and Consumer Ser-
'rry has asked the FBI to
The report. released by the House
Segal-Goodis were unsuccessful.
up expenses well above government
Haas. a former consumer advocate,
vice had accepted a questionable state-
stigate leaks of classified
Agriculture Committee, said that a for-
per diem rates for those localities.
mer Haas associate who ran the Team
has made Team Nutrition one of her
She had a $205 room at the Fair-
ment Segal-Goodis had signed, claim-
mation to reporters af-
concluding the disclo-
Nutrition program is under investiga-
top priorities, rejecting GOP com-
mont Hotel in San Francisco, where
ing an annual salary of approximately
tion by federal prosecutors for alleged-
plaints that funds for the program
the maximum government hotel rate
$85,000. That was partly based on
$ "are endangering the
of U.S. military person-
ly inflating her academic credentials
could be better spent on food than on
was $134. and a $159 room at the
$20,000 worth of "pro bono" consult-
and her previous salary. The woman.
the Disney characters and other high-
Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur
ing work for the White House and
erry was especially
identified by congressional sources as
profile promotions. Recently, Disney 11-
Springs, W.Va., where the top govern-
$17,500 worth of work that was con-
d by a July 29 article in
Maris Segal-Goodis, resigned July 31,
censed the same characters to a ham-
ment rate is $60, it said. When Haas's
tracted to her husband, the GAO said.
Washington Times quot-
according to the GAO report.
burger chain, which alarmed some of
authority to exceed per diem expenses
It also said Segal-Goodis "apparently
"intelligence sources"
The GAO report was ordered by
the Team Nutrition backers.
is considered. GAO said the excessive
misrepresented" on her application
g suspected Saudi ter-
committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-
Yesterday the committee released a
travel may have totaled no more than
that she had received an associate of
ts had tried to bribe per-
Kan.). The committee's Republican
second critical GAO report on Team
$200. It referred the matter to the Ag-
arts degree from Polk Community Col-
el at a military base in
majority has been highly critical of
Nutrition, focusing on the undersecre-
riculture inspector general for action.
lege in Winter Haven. Fla. The GAO
tran in a search for secu-
Haas over Team Nutrition, which be-
tary's travels and the staff she placed
The report's more serious allega-
said the college said the agriculture of-
weaknesses. Nineteen
gan in 1995 as a $20 million program
in charge of the program. The 40-page
tions focused on Segal-Goodis, who had
ficial had attended the school, but did
airmen were killed in a
using Walt Disney movie characters to
report said that Haas's expenses ex-
worked for Haas at Public Voice, a
not receive a degree.
I bomb attack there June
is is not the first time
Times and the article's
Wage Bill Includes Provisions Intended to Increase Adoptions
or, Bill Gertz. have
pted security investiga-
race. Pierce said Native American
By Spencer Rich
$15,000 in assistance, it would be
several Democrats led to approval of
Last March, the White
Washpigton Post Stam Writer
groups opposed being covered by
tax-free to you under the bill."
the adoption provisions, and added
e asked the Justice De-
this provision because of tribal
A $6,000 tax credit would be
that endorsement of an earlier ver-
nent to investigate the
Tucked away in the minimum
rights.
available for adoption of a "hard-to-
sion last spring by President Clinton
of a classified State De-
wage bill that President Clinton will
Pierce said this provision would
place" U.S. child. one with physical
was an important factor in moving
nent memo to Gertz
sign shortly is a block of provisions
set aside policies long held in many
or mental problems, for example.
the concept forward. He said Robert
t a conversation be-
granting families tax credits of up to
areas that said, in effect, that chil-
A tax credit of up to $5,000 would
J. Dole, then in the Senate, also
n President Clinton and
$5,000 per child for costs associated
dren must be placed with adoptive
be available for all other adoptions,
played an important role at an early
ian President Boris Yelt-
with adopting children and $6,000
families of the same race to preserve
from the United States or else-
stage of action.
for adopting "hard-to-place" children.
their cultural heritage. He said such
where.
Pierce said a coalition of about
June, State Department
"We hope the bill will lead to at
a policy was adopted by some social
All benefits would be means-
esman Nicholas Burns
two dozen groups backed the tax
least 5,000 more U.S. children being
unced as "gutless won-
work groups two decades ago in the
tested: They would be available for
provisions, including the American
adopted each year and another
, the government offi-
belief that children would not flour-
families with incomes up to $75,000
Academy of Adoption Attorneys. the
1.000 or so from abroad," said Wil-
who gave Gertz intelli-
ish under transracial adoptions.
and eliminated at $115,000.
Adoptive Parents Committee of
liam Pierce. president of the Nation-
3 memos accusing State
al Council for Adoption. who took a
Pierce said that, in his view, the
Except for the provision on "hard-
New York, the Association of Jewish
als of downplaying viola-
leading role in pushing for the provi-
impact of the policy has been to lock
to-place children." the tax provisions
Child and Family Service Agencies
of U.S. antiproliferation
many minority children into foster
would "sunset" after five years, at
and Resolve. Pierce said some other
by Egypt. Pakistan and
sions.
the end of 2001.
groups. though not formally part of
The 5,000 to 6,000 newly adopt-
care instead of letting them be
1.
adopted by whites, despite the fact
Pierce said the work of GOP lead-
the coalition, lent support at various
appears that one or
ed children would be on top of the
51,000 U.S. children and 10,000 or
that several studies have found that
ers of the Senate Finance and House
stages, such as the National Right to
DOD employees are
black children do well when adopted
Ways and Means committees and
Life Committee.
erately and illegally" Te-
SO foreign children adopted annually
1g classified military in-
by Americans. Pierce said. Pierce
by white families.
ation, Perry wrote in a
said 110.000 children in foster care
The tax credit provisions, effec-
) yesterday to top Pen-
in the United States are available for
tive Jan. 1. would apply to all but
1 officials. "Our intelli-
adoption.
stepparent adoptions. The provi-
: sources and methods
In addition to the tax credits,
sions are as follows:
Patio Place
eing inevitably compro-
which would cost $1.3 billion over
Up to $5,000 of adoption expens-
1 and therefore will be-
the next five years, the bill bars the
es such as agency and attorneys fees
Elegant Outdoor Furniture
PHOTOCOPY
less effective.
states or any agencies that receive
paid to employees by businesses
the worst case, the
federal funding for adoption-except
would be tax-free. "So if you adopted
PRESERVATION
romise can actually en-
Indian tribes-from denying or de-
:r the life of one of our
laying placement of a child based on
said, "and your employer gave you
1/2
Price
Clearance!
three siblings from Russia," Pierce
Low Price!
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igence sources." Perry
I, and "cause the intelli-
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A National Adoption Strategic Plan
by
The Adoption Program Network
December 1995
DRAFT
NATIONAL ADOPTION STRATEGIC PLAN
PREAMBLE
Although founded on the belief that every child has the right to
This Adoption Strategic Plan highlights key results that
a permanent family, nationally within the child welfare system
successful programs must achieve to provide homes for the
adoption services fail to meet the needs of thousands of children
thousands of waiting children in the child welfare system. Many
who wait! This failure is characterized by: a lack of shared
of the waiting children* have special needs. These children are
values regarding who is adoptable; a lack of early and
older; children of color; physical, developmental or emotionally
appropriate identification, preparation, and assessment of
challenged, and/or mentally disabled; or belong to a sibling
children's needs; lengthy, cumbersome legal and clinical
group. However, these results can only be accomplished within
processes; inadequate public awareness and efforts to recruit,
broader goals that address permanency for all children.
prepare, and retain families who reflect the ethnic and racial
diversity of children in care or families who have the capacity to
Adoption services are an integral part of the public child welfare
parent a child of a different race/ethnicity; jurisdictional barriers
system. Successful adoptions depend in part on effective service
to placement and matching; limited ongoing supports, funding,
delivery from the time a child and family have initial contact
and other resources; and inadequate staff training. As a result,
with the system. For appropriate and timely targeting of
efforts are not coordinated, effective, or sustained for many
adoptive placements, the system must provide:
children. Adoption services must be improved to achieve better
outcomes.
- preventive and early intervention services to avoid
placement;
To accommodate both broad system goals for permanency and
- time limited, goal oriented, permanency focused services to
specific goals for adoption services, this Plan reflects a two
resolve problems of families whose children are in
tiered planning approach. First, broad goals are articulated that
placement;
impact on children in need of permanent families. Second,
- timely casework, judicial and administrative decisions to
adoption specific goals are articulate. For each adoption goal,
assure permanency;
indicators are presented that should be used to measure success.
-
a range of permanency options including placement with
This those working throughout the child welfare system an
relatives, adoption and guardianship;
opportunity to identify how they can help achieve our mission to
-
concurrent planning (reunification, placement with extended
assure permanent families for all children.
family, and adoption planning occurs at the same time); and
- prospective adoptive families who reflect the population of
This is not a typical strategic plan. It addresses what the
children served or have the capacity to parent a child of a
Adoption Program Network envision as fundamental
different race/ethnicity.
achievements needed to accomplish permanency for children. We
describe what should be accomplished, not how to do it. By
In the absence of a well functioning child welfare system,
concentrating on results, States and communities have a clear
children drift, opportunities for reunification with families are
idea of the outcomes sought for children and maximum flexibility
lost, and children are damaged in ways that make adoption
to choose the strategies best suited to them.
difficult to achieve.
*Bold items defined in Appendix 1.
1
PROGRAM
STRATEGIC GOALS
This Strategic Plan is the result of a collaborative process and
Our system goals describe the context in which adoption goals
applies to the entire Adoption network partnership. This
must be achieved. The adoption goals represent specific
partnership includes anyone who contribute to identifying,
achievements the Adoption Program can contribute toward
assessing, and preparing children for adoption as well as finding
overall system reform over the next 5 years.
and sustaining adoptive families. It includes State, federal,
private and other community organizations. It recognizes that
Each adoption goal is accompanied by measures of success.
some children face special barriers to gaining adoptive families,
These measures focus on the outcomes that directly measure goal
especially those who are older, have physical, developmental or
achievement or which will inevitably lead to successful
emotional challenges, and/or mental disabilities, children of
accomplishment of goals. The Plan assumes the use of existing
color, and sibling groups. We will achieve the broad strategic
data systems such as the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and
goals in this Plan through the commitment and involvement of
Reporting System (AFCARS) and Statewide Automated Child
all network partners who formulated and committed themselves
Welfare Information Systems (SACWIS) to produce data for
to this plan.
success measures. There are some performance measures for
which no national data system exists or for which existing data
MISSION
does not accurately measure the goal. For these goals, State and
localities will have to develop innovative measurements; use data
The mission of the Adoption network partners is to secure an
sources/elements currently not required by AFCARS; or develop
adoptive family for every child for whom adoption is
proxies for measures.
appropriate. Children can be assured a permanent adoptive
family through early identification, assessment and child
We include national strategies (see Appendix 4) for
preparation; aggressive recruitment and preparation of
accomplishing adoption goals. These strategies represent our
prospective adoptive parents; the elimination of legal and other
best thinking about how to achieve these goals. Many additional
barriers to adoption; and the adequate provision of supportive
strategies will be required for the Program to be successful.
services.
They will require local, community-based efforts that will be
formulated, adopted and executed at the local level.
VISION
No child will wait for a permanent family. Adoption of older
children, children of color, physically, developmentally or
emotionally challenged, and/or mentally disabled, and sibling
groups will become one normative way of forming families.
Through partnerships among communities, State, local and
federal agencies, we will identify and support families willing to
adopt these children. This Plan is founded on "Basic Values"
(see Appendix 2) shared by the Adoption Program Network
(see Appendix 3).
2
GOAL I
GOAL II
System Goal: Reduce the number of all children needing
System Goal: Minimize loss by decreasing the number of moves
permanency by finding permanent families and decreasing the
prior to achieving permanency and maintaining the continuity of
number of children entering the child welfare system.
children's relationships with family, significant others,
community and culture.
Adoption Goal: Increase the number of adoptions including
children with physical, developmental, mental and emotional
Adoption Goal: Minimize loss and maintain the continuity of
disabilities, children of color, sibling groups, older children, and
children's relationships with family, significant others,
other waiting populations (unique demographic characteristics of
community and culture, before and after adoption.
children that may vary geographically and over time -- e.g.
HIV + children, children exposed to drugs, children orphaned by
Children spend an average of 3.5 years waiting for adoption after
AIDS).
termination of parental rights. There is a need to minimize
trauma and improve healthy development through continued ties
Two out of three waiting chilren have special needs. It takes
with their community, culture, extended family and other
substantially longer to find homes for minority children. Older
significant relationships.
children and sibling groups, irrespective or race, also have
longer waits.
Measure of Success
Measures of Success:
1. Frequency distribution of placement moves experienced by
those children discharged from foster care due to adoption -
1. Total number of adoptions and the total number of
FCDE
adoptions of children identified with special needs -
Adoption Data Element (ADE)¹
2. Frequency distribution of the length waiting children are in
the system (not discharged from foster care) and frequency
2. Number and percent of inter/intra State adoptions - ADE
distribution by special population - FCDE¹
3. Median time to achieve inter/intra State adoptions - ADE
3. Percent of total adoptions for placements with: stepparent,
other relative (related by birth or marriage) or foster parent²
4. Percent of children adopted per number of children waiting
ADE and Foster Care Data Element (FCDE)
'AFCARS data is limited in capturing information on children with special needs.
'AFCARS only provides information on the relationship of adoptive parent to the child which can
serve as a temporary proxy measure for continuity of family and significant relationships.
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GOAL III
GOAL IV
System Goal: Services to children and families are provided by
System Goal: Every child will be in a permanent family within
culturally competent staff in community settings.
one year of initial entry into out-of-home care.
Adoption Goal: Decision-making in adoption includes regard for
Adoption Goal: When adoption is appropriate, a child will be
the child's background and need for cultural continuity.
placed in an adoptive family within one year of entry into out-of-
home care.
Children have a right to maintain cultural, racial, and ethnic
continuity. Agencies do not always have sufficient prospective
Children are in care too long without the permanency of
adoptive families who reflect the ethnic and racial diversity of
adoption. To accomplish this goal many systemic changes must
children in their community or have the capacity to parent a
be made in all systems that impact upon the child. Early
child of a different race/ethnicity. Agencies should reach out to
permanency planning and timely decision-making by the
find those adoptive families.
judiciary would assist those children needing adoptive homes.
Measures of Success
Measures of Success
1.
Number and percent of adoptive families prepared by
community-based adoption programs - No national data
1. Frequency distribution of the length of time children were
source available³
in out-of-home care before adoption - FCDE
2.
Number and percent of adoptive placements with families
2. Frequency distribution of the length of time children (those
prepared by community based programs - No national data
not adopted) have been in out-of-home care without
source available
adoptive placement - FCDE
3. Total number of disruptions for the year compared to the
total number of adoptive placements for the year - No
national data source exists
'Area for Adoption Program Network workgroup to develop.
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GOAL V
GOAL VI
System Goal: Increase the number and accessibility of approved
System Goal: Provide holistic, culturally, and linguistically
families who reflect the diversity and meet the needs of waiting
relevant services and resources that will achieve and sustain
children.
permanency for all children.
Adoption Goal: Increase the number and accessibility of
Adoption Goal: Provide holistic, culturally, and linguistically
approved families who reflect the diversity and meet the needs
relevant services and resources that will achieve and sustain
of waiting children.
adoptions
An insufficient number of prospective adoptive families are
Achieving and sustaining adoptions for children is impacted by
recruited to meet the needs of waiting children. Often interested
the accessibility and availability of appropriate adoption
families who reflect their diversity and can meet their needs are
sensitive services and resources for all affected persons.
denied access to or drop out of the system. The system has also
been unable to connect many waiting children with approved
Measures of Success
families who can meet their needs.
1. Total number of services/resources that are accessible,
Measures of Success
appropriate, and culturally and linguistically responsive -
No national data source available
1.
Percent of approved families compared to those approved
families who reflect the ethnic and racial diversity and/or
2. Percentage of adoption disruption, dissolution, and
can meet the needs of waiting children - No national data
displacement rates - No national data source available
elements exists
3. Percent of children discharged not due to adoption -FCDE
2. Median number of days in care for those children
discharged due to adoption (both inter and intra state) -
FCDE
3. Total number of potential adoptive families compared to
potential adoptive parents who begin the adoption process
and remain until adoptive placement occurs - No national
data source available
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GOAL VII
GOAL VIII
System Goal: Children, families, and network partners have
System Goal: Increase the public awareness and support for the
access to all information pertinent to meeting the needs of the
adoption of waiting children.
child.
Adoptive Goal: Increase the public awareness and support for
Adoptive Goal: Children, families, and network partners have
the adoption of waiting children.
access to all information pertinent to meeting the needs of the
adopted child.
The American people must be educated to overcome the myths
and inaccurate information about the adoption of waiting
Successful adoptions depend, in part, on effective service
children. They must first know who the children are. Also, they
delivery beginning when the child and family have initial contact
must be encouraged to support and celebrate these adoptions.
with the system. Effective service delivery is based on
information. Children, families, substitute caretakers and service
Measure of Success
providers must have access to needed information (e.g., social,
health, educational, etc.) throughout life.
1. Level of public awareness and support of adoption of
waiting children - No national data source available
Measure of Success
1.
Perception of accessibility of information among partners,
families, adult adoptees and waiting children - No national
data source available
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APPENDIXES
APPENDIX 1 - GLOSSARY
child/children = 0 to 18 years old and in the child welfare
access = all information on children is routinely provided
system
to the adoptive families, records are open, information is
integrated
continuity = maintaining connections for children to
earlier life relationships and experiences (i.e. culture,
Accessibility = removing jurisdictional/geographical
ethnicity, etc.)
barriers
disruption = removal from the adoptive home prior to
[an] adoption is appropriate = birth parents are unwilling
finalization of adoption.
and/or unable to care for the child; an adoption by
relatives, foster parents or other unrelated individuals will
Educating (and reeducating) - overcoming negative
provide permanency
portrayals; describing the kinds of children in care; the
number and location of those children; dispelling myths;
Adoption Network Partners = parties who contribute to
explaining the scope of adoption and the process
identifying, assessing, and preparing children for adoption
Loss = deprivation which may affect self-esteem,
and who find and sustain adoptive families
development and the ability to form healthy relationships
Adoption Program Network = cross cutting group of
Permanent family = parenting rights and responsibilities
those involved in adoption services and attended the
belong to the family and the family has made a life-time
Adoption Strategic Plan Meeting in Washington, DC in
commitment to the child
December 1995 (see Appendix 3 for list)
Public = communities, public officials, policy makers,
Adoption Sensitive Services/Resources = Respite,
corporate sector and the media
culture/identity support, medical subsidy, post adoptive
fiscal/financial resources, empowerment, mental health,
Support = financial resources (dollars), advocating,
advocacy, information/anticipatory guidance, training,
encouraging, celebrating, affirming, normalizing, and
education, medical/treatment, case consultation, concrete
providing emotional support
services (e.g., ramps, room additions, beds, etc.), crisis
intervention, transition to adulthood, case management,
waiting children = those children who is consider legally
and all other necessary services to support adoptions.
free for adoption but has not yet been placed with a
permanent adoptive family; includes older children,
All pertinent information = includes health, education,
children of color, children with physical, developmental or
mental health, mental retardation, developmental
emotionally challenges, and/or mentally disabled; and
disabilities, substance abuse, juvenile justice, social
children belonging to a sibling group --- also those unique
history, etc.
demographic characteristics of children that may vary
geographically and change over time (e.g., children with
approved families = families who have completed home
HIV, infants and young children exposed to drugs,
study and requirements (as defined by the jurisdiction)
children orphaned by AIDS)
APPENDIX 2 - BASIC VALUES
Basic values shared by the members of the network:
1.
Every child has a right to a permanent family.
8.
Decision making for children must be guided by the
child's best interest and an understanding of his/her
2.
For most children, the family of choice is the birth
needs.
family.
9.
Adoptive parents have a right to full disclosure of
3.
Risk to children is minimized when families have
information.
access to services, including adoption, which will help
them resolve the problems they face.
10.
Children have a right to understand their status and to
work through the losses inherent in the placement
4.
Permanency planning for children is enhanced when
process.
birth families have rights to counseling and
participation in the process is assured.
11.
Permanency efforts must include culturally competent
adoption services.
5.
Planning for a child's permanence must begin when
the child enters the system.
12.
Successful adoption outcomes require collaboration
among child serving agencies and courts.
6.
In an adoption program the child's needs are primary
and the goal is to find an appropriate family for each
waiting child.
13.
As adults, adoptees have the right to full disclosure of
information about their lives.
7.
Casework, legal and administrative decisions about
children must be timely, reflecting a child's sense of
14.
Adoption is a lifelong and intergenerational process.
time.
APPENDIX 3 - ADOPTION PROGRAM NETWORK
Ann Burds
Robert Lewis
Department of Health and
Special Adoption Family Services
Linda Schell
Human Resources
Boston, MA
Department of Human Services
Charleston, WV
Bismarck, ND
Ernesto Loperena
Susan Davis
New York Council on Adoptable Children
Pat O'Neal Williams
The Rehabilitation Institute
New York, NY
National One Church, One Child Program
Pittsburgh, PA
Tallahassee, FL
O. Jane Morgan
Diane Dodson
Oklahoma Department of Human Services
Carol Whitemountain
Silver Spring, MD
Oklahoma City, OK
National Indian Child Welfare Association
Portland, OR
Sydney Duncan
Nancy Newman
Homes for Black Children
Pennsylvania Adoption
Detroit, MI
Legislation Coalition
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Bryn Mawr, PA
Services - Federal Staff
Brenda Gadson
Massachusetts Families for Kids
Toni Oliver
Carolyn Baker
Boston, MA
National Association of
ACF Region II - New York, NY
Black Social Workers
Jann Heffner
White Plain, NY
Bessie Barnett
The Dave Thomas Foundation
ACF Region IV - Atlanta, GA
Dublin, OH
Liz Oppenheim
American Public Welfare Association
Ellen W. Carey
Carolyn Johnson
Washington, D.C.
Children's Bureau
National Adoption Center
ACF - Washington, DC
Philadelphia, PA
Robert Praksti
National Council of Juvenile
Denise E. Carver
Joe Kroll
& Family Court Judges
Office for Civil Rights - Washington, DC
North American Council on
Reno, NV
Adoptable Children
Gail Evans
Saint Paul, MN
Charlcie Parrish
Administration for Developmental
Iowa Department of Human Services
Disabilities - Washington, DC
Drenda Lakin
Des Moines, IA
National Resource Center for
Wilfred Hamm
Special Needs Adoption
Barbara Pearson
Children's Bureau
Southfield, MI
The Northwest Adoption Exchange
ACF - Washington, DC
Seattle, WA
Lillian B. Lansberry
Forrest Lewis
Adoption Exchange Association
Laura Pleasants
ACF Region V - Chicago, IL
Baltimore, MD
Adoption Information Center of Illinois
Chicago, IL
U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services - Federal Staff continued
Oneida Little
ACF Region VIII - Denver, CO
Robert Mead
ACF VII - Kansas City, MO
Veronica Melendez
ACF Region I - Boston, MA
Delores Smith
ACF Region III - Philadelphia, PA
Carole Thompson
Children's Bureau - ACF
Washington, DC
Geneva Ware-Rice
Children's Bureau - ACF
Washington, DC
Bill Quinlan
Subtance Abuse Mental Health Services
Administration - Rockville, MD
Susan Sanders
ACF Region X - Seattle, WA
Carol Williams
Children's Bureau
ACF - Washington, DC
Charles Yates
ACF Region VI - Dallas, TX
APPENDIX 4: SUGGESTED* NATIONAL ADOPTION STRATEGIES
*These suggested national strategies were developed during brainstorming sessions as activities which could be conducted on a national level (they should not be interpreted
as planned federal activity) to support the achievement of state and community adoption plan goals. While these are only suggestions, states and local communities are
encouraged to adapt these strategies for their own use.
GOAL I:
Increase the number of adoptions including children with physical, developmental, mental and emotional disabilities, children of color, sibling
groups, older children, and other waiting populations.
Tracking System
Support implementation of AFCARS and SACWIS and expand to private agencies and tribes.
Identify alternative, creative funding strategies that provide incentives to obtain permanent families for children (e.g., purchase of service, managed care models,
outcome-based funding, IRS check-off).
Remove jurisdictional barriers by linking national, regional and State exchanges so that all waiting children are visible and all families seeking to adopt are
accessible.
Support changes recommended by court improvement projects.
Institutionalize collaboration between courts and public and private agencies.
Support, encourage State membership in, and streamline the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children and the Interstate Compact for Adoption and Medical
Assistance.
Goal II:
Minimize loss and maintain the continuity of children's relationships with family, significant others, community and culture, before and after
adoption.
Encourage openness in adoption (information, records and visits with past relationships).
Encourage community ownership in what happens to children.
Through community partnerships, develop agreements for and understanding of criteria for adoptive families.
Expand the definition of family.
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Goal III:
Decision-making in adoption includes regard for the child's background and need for cultural continuity.
Involve citizens in designing services for community-based adoption programs which assure that children's need for cultural continuity is met.
Goal IV:
When adoption is appropriate, a child will be placed in an adoptive family within one year of entry into out-of-home care.
For Concurrent Planning: Increase concurrent planning for children as they enter care (simultaneous consideration of reunification, placement with extended family
and adoption) so permanent placement may be achieved within one year. Enhance this process and improve the quality of services for children through joint
preparation and development of foster and adoptive parents.
For the Courts: In many cases, children are without families because termination of parental rights (TPR) and adoption decisions are delayed or deferred by the
courts.
Within one year, courts must:
-
Determine whether child welfare agencies have made reasonable efforts to prevent placement of each foster child;
-
Determine whether agencies are making reasonable efforts to reunify the families of children in foster care;
-
Review case plans;
-
Docket and hear TPR and adoption actions when appropriate; and
-
Finalize TPR decisions that are appealed.
Increase the training of judges, attorneys, and foster care review boards, CASAs and guardians ad litem to enhance their ability to make quality and timely decisions
on permanent plans for children.
Focused Technical Assistance to Policy Makers
Establish or enhance technical assistance for state legislators, other state policy makers and advocates for adoption of special needs children on state legislation and
policies that will achieve and sustain appropriate adoptions.
Goal V:
Increase the number and accessibility of approved families who reflect the diversity and meet the needs of waiting children.
Encourage national, state, local and private adoption service providers to examine systems and address barriers that impact recruitment, preparation and retention
such as inflexible policies and practices, insufficient staff and other resources and agency values and biases.
Develop models for effective response, preparation and retention of people interested in adopting waiting children.
Enhance and expand the use of existing resources, e.g., adoption exchanges, clearinghouses and resource centers, community and religious organizations.
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Goal V:
Increase the number and accessibility of approved families who reflect the diversity and meet the needs of waiting children - continued
Encourage members of the adoption community to expand the use of technological resources, e.g., internet, etc.
Form public/private partnerships at State, local and national levels to support adoption (include businesses, community, government and private agencies, religious
organizations etc.)
Goal VI:
Provide holistic, culturally, and linguistically relevant services and resources that will achieve and sustain adoptions
Standardized interstate/intrastate procedures and instruments
Contractual adoption home studies
National collection of foster care and adoption data
National, local and regional matching processes for children and families
Use of electronic communication to transfer information and expedite adoptive placement
All children legally free for adoption be declared a family of one and therefore eligible for Title IV-E Adoption Assistance
Maintain the portability of adoption, medical and nonrecurring cost assistance
Screen adoptive families in, not out and provide support throughout the process
Expedite judicial procedures related to adoption
Include birth parents in the adoption planning process
Provide birth parents with permanency options which can assist their efforts to make permanency decisions in their child's best interests
Empower and prepare adoptive parents throughout the adoption process and involve them in advocating for services that sustain adoption
Increase in the accessibility and appropriateness of services that are culturally and linguistically responsive (determined by conducting a survey).
Provide training and technical assistance to all persons who impact adoption.
Provide need based post legalization services
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Goal VI:
Provide holistic, culturally, and linguistically relevant services and resources that will achieve and sustain adoptions - continued
Expand service delivery network
Ensure availability of culturally and linguistically responsive staff and services
Create a national standardized adoptive placement agreement
Increase in data on adoption disruption, dissolution, and displacement rates
Maintain AFCARS
Require/maintain national reporting on disruption, dissolution, and displacement rates
Ensure information is retained on State and national data bases
Provide Family Preservation and Support services to adoptive families
Decrease in the number of children/youths with appropriate plan for adoption who are discharged without being adopted
National standard that no child is unadoptable
Children are granted a participatory voice in the process
All child caregivers work toward permanency for children
Appropriate permanency assessments are conducted at the initial contact
Agencies place children in appropriate settings the first time
Goal VII:
Children, families, and network partners have access to all information pertinent to meeting the needs of the adopted child.
Models for Information Flow - Create new models for increasing the information flow to families and service partners. Use demonstration projects to identify and
remove barriers. Develop model legislation and regulations on gathering and providing full information.
Disclosure - States will fully implement disclosure provisions of Federal law. Foster and adoptive families will receive complete information. States will implement
"active - registry" systems to allow adult adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents to easily exchange medical, social, educational, etc. histories.
SACWIS Implementation - States will fully implement SACWIS to track the progress and development of all children who enter the child welfare system. Data
from the system will be used to improve practice and formulate policy to enhance the quality of life of the children in care.
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Goal VIII:
Increase the public awareness and support for the adoption of waiting children.
Partner with a national polling firm to design, conduct and analyze the level of and increase in the public's awareness and support of the adoption of waiting
children.
Invite governors to join the adoption community to promote and support the adoption of waiting children.
Develop an ongoing national public awareness campaign with a common theme (multi-media, national spokespersons that mirror the waiting children, lead by
governors at the State level and the President at the national level).
Work with network partners and others yearly to celebrate national adoption month.
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NATIONAL ADOPTION CENTER
1500 Walnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 (215) 735-9988
"There are no unwanted children just unfound parents.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
CAROLYN L. JOHNSON
Executive Director
NATIONAL ADOPTION CENTER
1500 Walnut St., Suite 701, Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 735-9988
FAX: 735-9410
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8A MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1996 USA TODAY
THE
NATION
Adoption groups
EN
ANE
SOME INTERNET ADOPTION SITES
http://www.adopt.org/adopt
building families
"Faces of Adoption," listing American children, is produced by the Na-
tional Adoption Center in Philadelphia and Children Awaiting Parents
in Rochester, N.Y.
http://www.adoption.com
The "Precious in His Sight" listing was the nation's first, and carries
via the Internet
pictures and descriptions of kids handled by several international
adoption agencies in the USA.
http://www.webstreet.com/cs/orphans
The "Little Friends" directory lists children who mainly come from
Eastern Europe.
Method provides more data on children
http://www/dcb.du.edu/drichard/RMAE/rmae.html
The Adoption Exchange's site now offers information on the Denver-
By Mark Potok
man of the National Adoption Center
based agency's services. Starting April 1, it will carry photo and text
USA TODAY
in Philadelphia. "It is going to demys-
listings on adoptable children from Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico,
tify the process and bring much-
Utah, Nevada, Missouri, Montana and South Dakota.
Adoption advocates across the
needed information into the homes
http://www.america.net/amrex1/aanaa.htm
country, working to find permanent
of people who are interested in adop-
The Association of American Nonprofit Adoption Agencies, in Jackson-
homes for thousands of hard-to-place
tion. And we think more people will
ville, Ark., lists mainly children from Eastern Europe and China.
U.S. and foreign children, are trying
adopt."
http://www.state.ny.us/dss/adopt/
a new marketing tool.
So far, fewer than 20 children
By Craig Ruttle. The Cincinnati Enquirer
New York's "Adoption Blue Book" lists about 40 of the Department of
They're going on the Internet.
have been adopted through the Inter-
In Independence, Ky: Joe and Julie Fugazzi hold their 5-month-old adopted
Social Services' hardest-to-place kids, along with general information.
This trend started in late 1994,
net, which allows people to interact
son, William 'Will' Fugazzi, whom they found via an Internet adoption program.
http://www.dhs.state.tx.us/tdprs/homepage.html
when a Waco, Texas, homemaker
with other computer users world-
"Dare to Love" is created by the Texas Department of Protective and
became the first to create a comput-
wide. There are 100,000 U.S. chil-
People who find a child can contact
"This gives people (visual) access
Regulatory Services and the Texas Adoption Resource Exchange.
erized photo listing of children up for
dren and uncounted foreign children
the agencies directly.
to many children, and maybe they'll
http://www.gladney.org/
adoption. Major adoption agencies
who need permanent families.
Would-be adopters still must go
think about children they hadn't con-
The Gladney Center, a nonprofit adoption agency in Fort Worth, posts
have since set up listings on the
"The Internet has changed our
through a social worker's study of
sidered before," says Ember Stine of
text descriptions and some pictures of children from abroad.
World Wide Web, a global communi-
lives," says Trish Maskew, of Colum-
their family and meet other require-
the Ethiopia program for Family
cations network that is part of the In-
bia, Tenn. She found the 8-year-old
ments to be approved for adoption.
Connections, a California adoption
ternet
Vietnamese boy she and her hus-
But once those steps are completed,
agency. "It also allows them to look
vacy Journal, thinks the listings have
Annette Thompson in Waco. The site
Texas and New York were the
band are adopting while on the Net.
the Net listings can make it much
at the information at their leisure."
great potential but worries about
includes kids from several interna-
first states to create sites. By April 1,
"My neighbors came over and start-
easier to find a desired child.
Still, some worry that posting in-
abuse. Besides the dangers of stalk-
tional adoption agencies.
eight Western states will go on line
ed looking at it and now they're con-
The hundreds of children whose
formation about children may cre-
ing or abductions if kids are identifi-
The Fugazzis took their South Ko-
through a photo listing set up by the
sidering a Russian adoption."
faces may be seen on the Internet
ate problems. Typically, only a first
able, he says some people could
rean son home Feb. 11, six weeks af-
Denver-based Adoption Exchange,
Typically, users will find an intro-
generally are not healthy infants
name or ID number is used. "There
download and alter photo images.
ter spotting him on the Internet.
says director Dixie Davis. The states
ductory page on the Internet, which
who are easy to place. Most are "spe-
are a lot of people surfing the Inter-
But none of that bothers Julie and
"Joe was always playing on the
are Colorado, Missouri, Montana,
often includes general adoption in-
cial needs" children. They are older,
net, and not all of them have the best
Joe Fugazzi. The Independence, Ky.,
computer, and it drove me totally ba-
Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota,
formation. From there they can ac-
have physical, mental or emotional
intentions," says Patrick Purtell of
couple spent years struggling with in-
nanas," says Julie Fugazzi, 27. "But I
Utah and Wyoming
cess the main listings, which contain
disabilities, are in sibling groups or
the National Council for Adoption.
fertility treatments before going on
guess I can't complain about it any
"This has the potential to revolu-
photos and text descriptions supplied
come from minority cultures. Many
Like Purtell, Robert Ellis Smith, pub-
line last fall. There, they found the
more. I never dreamed we'd find our
tionize adoption," says Gloria Hoch-
to Net sites by adoption agencies.
are from foreign countries.
lisher of the Rhode Island-based Pri-
"Precious in His Sight" listing run by
child on a computer."
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thing adoption-related while I'm fig-
The Faces of Adoption Web page provided photos and biographies of foster
uring it out.
children, such as Joshua, who are available for adoption.
Sometimes in all the talk of Roma-
nia vs. Bulgaria, the benefits of
lists available foster children in the
down and study for it in front of your
adopting a 3-month-old VS. a 3-year-
United States. Only children ages 5
favorite computer.
old, the expense, and how to cope
through 16 are included. Along with
Engineer Pardner Wynn ("Yes,
with mental and physical disabilities,
the pictures are four-paragraph bios
I'm from Texas, and yes, my parents
I start to think about maybe just
that include the children's hobbies,
actually named me that") designs
skipping the whole thing and going
interests, how they relate to others
and sells SAT prep course software,
on my merry way. I sometimes need
and how they are doing in school.
and also puts it all up on the Internet
to remind myself of what exactly the
All of the sites offer addition infor-
for free. The set-up is funded by the
point is.
mation about adoption in general and
sale of CD-ROMs on the site-about
The Web helps there. I still carry
how to proceed with inquiries about
one out of a hundred visitors buys
around a picture I cut out of the
newspaper of kids left at an orphan-
a particular child. Many bios end
one, and he says the site gets
with a variation of "all that is needed
10,000 to 15,000 hits a day. His real
age, watching as a newly adopted
is a stable home and unconditional
return is student feedback, which is
friend leaves them behind. But now
there are sites that show pictures of
love," and these pictures make you
helping him develop better virtual
believe that it is that simple.
test preparation materials.
kids who need to be adopted. One
-Dianne Weeks
I stumbled around on the site, try-
browse will kill you. Their faces are
young and hopeful with agreeable
[email protected]
ing to find the test and see what I'd
score. Thinking I was unconsciously
smiles and a look of innocence that
GETTING THERE: To join the adoption
avoiding finding it (memories of the
belie the information that is often in
listserv, send an e-mail to listserv@
LSAT, twice taken), I called Pard-
their biographies about the neglect,
sjuvm.stjohns.edu. Faces of Adoption is at
ner. "No, you take the sample test at
long-term institutionalization, men-
http://www.adopt.org/adopt. Precious in
your high school," he said. "You then
tal and physical disorders, abuse,
His Sight: http://www.adoption.com.
go to the Web site, type the answers
separations and losses that have
New York State Department of Social Ser-
in, and the test is scored." Knowing
shaped their lives so far.
vices: http://www.state.ny.us/dss/
your weak areas allows you to con-
If you're interested in internation-
adopt. Texas Department of Protective
centrate on the most valuable les-
al adoption, the Precious in His Sight
and Regulatory Services: http://www.dhs
.state.tx.us/tdprs/homepage.html Glad-
sons and practice tests the site of-
Web Page is extensive and well-or-
ney Center in Fort Worth: http://www
fers, he said. But I didn't go back.
ganized. You can designate the age,
.gladney.org.
-Karen Marrero
country or sex of the children's pic-
[email protected]
tures you would like to view. The
SATisfaction
home page also features one or two
GETTING THERE: Use your Web
children who urgently need adopt-
Tis the season for all good stu-
browser and http://www.testprep.com
ing, such as Nikita, who is 3 and
dents to cough up enough accumu-
Found something intriguing,
needs an operation that is common
lated knowledge to prove their fu-
improbable, insane or especially
in the United States but unavailable
ture value to humankind, and assign
useful on the Net? Write it up and
to him in Russia, without which his
the results a number. We're talking
send it to Karen Marrero,
leg may be amputated.
about the Scholastic Assessment
marrerokia washpost.com, or Joei
The Faces of Adoption Web Page
Test. the SAT. And you can hunker
Garreau, garreau @ well.com.
FACES OF ADOPTION
FACT SHEET
Faces of Adoption is an exciting new way for families to learn about children
waiting to be adopted. This easy-to-use, computerized "photo listing book"
located on the World Wide Web of the Internet enables families to read about
children who need permanent homes.
A special section of the web site called AdoptionQuest provides families with
information on adoption-related topics including: How to adopt; issues in
adoption; lists of corporations offering adoption benefits; financial assistance
available and book reviews.
Faces of Adoption went on line in October, 1995. Since then:
The site has received over 1.5 million "hits".
While hits are primarily from the United States, Faces of
Adoption has been accessed in 44 other countries.
The average daily hits has increased to over 15,000 hits.
Usage in March increased by 46% over February.
265 Children have been featured.
The number of children added in March more than
doubled the number added in any prior month.
NetGuide Magazine gave Faces of Adoption a FOUR STAR
Rating: "Outstanding in its field. A must-see if you're interested
in the topic at hand."
Several children have placements pending as a result of being
seen by families on Faces of Adoption.
What People Are Saying About Faces of Adoption
"This is a very well done site and very impressive. I have recommended your site to other
webmasters as an example of how to do things right. You not only are doing a good technical
job but it is a good 'human job' also!"
A Technology Consultant
"Very good informational sections on disabilities, subsidies, etc. Keep up the good work!"
Prospective Adoptive Parent
"I think that this is a great service to provide and I'm glad to see this available. After reading
several of the children's profiles, I find myself wishing I was in a situation where I could adopt
one of these wonderful children. I want to help spread the word about your service."
A Friend of Adoption
"I'd like to see every child in America who is waiting for adoption to be listed on the Internet."
Adoptive Parent
"
The children's stories are poignant, but the copy is never sensational or sentimental. The
descriptions of the children and the challenges prospective parents would face are detailed with
honesty This is a welcome online home for kids who are looking for a 'forever' family."
Net Guide Magazine
"I have learned so much from your adoption information and have told many people in our
foster parent/adoptive parent association about this service. Thanks very much for your help
and your effort to bring families and children together."
Member of Parent Support Group
"You're doing a great job, keep up the good work! Not only are we actually getting solid and
detailed information on children we inquire about, the timeliness of the contacts with children's
caseworkers is unbelievable. Pat yourselves on the backs!
Adoptive Parent
"Just wanted to commend you for this page. Its a bright spot in a sometime darkened
world."
A Surfer
In Depth
Making a difference
FINALISTS FOR THE 1998
COMPUTERWORLD
SMITHSONIAN AWARDS
Every June we take a break from
Computerworld Smithsonian
Business and related
services
reporting on technology as a purely
7th Annual
Awards, which honor applications
Bell Atlantic
money-saving, productivity-
Computerworld
that improve society and our lives.
Information Systems
Disgnosing phone network
enhancing, competitive advantage-
Smithsonian
Information technology is helping
problems before they happen
FedEx Corp.
creating bunch of bits that can rocket
Awards
the innovative heroes among us do
lynginto the customer
fulfillment process
a company to fame and fortune.
the awe-inspiring. And when all is said
MCI Communications Corp.
Round-the-clock telecom
On the next three pages, you'll meet six
and done, perhaps that is technology's
network capability that
borrows public voice network
of the 50 finalists for the Seventh Annual
greatest gift.
capacity as needed
SpeakEZ
USINR VOICE outterns to
identify individuals for credit
GOVERNMENT AND NONPROFITS
cards, security systems and
automated teller machines
Wal Mart Stores. Inc.
Sharing detailed sales date
with 10,000 veridors
Database pairs kids
Education and academic
Saginaw Valley
State University
High school students access
supercomputers to carry out
and adoptive families
environmental research
Stevens Institute of
Technology
atty, a 4-year-old African-American girl, was prenatally ex-
Making computing per vasive
throughout its college
posed to cocaine and other drugs. Her birth mother was HIV-
curriculum
positive, though Patty is not. Like other children locked in the
The Computer Museum
Exhibits that provide
foster care system, Patty was labeled "difficult" to adopt.
perspective on the impact of
Patty was in foster care for two years before she was
computers on our planet
matched with a family via the computerized database system of the
University of California.
Los Angeles
National Adoption Exchange (NAE), a program of the National Adop-
Computer simulation of
tion Center. Typically, a child/family placement takes from several
apparatus such AS
telescopes and
months to a few years, but the NAE was able to place Patty with her
SD++ traineters
permanent family in only three months. No longer the withdrawn, tim-
Warron Consolidated
id child she was two years ago, Patty today participates in choir, jazz,
Schools/Ameritech. Inc.
See story, page 102
ballet and tap dancing.
Environment. energy and
The NAE's database enables social workers to bring up possible
agriculture
matches quickly. "In no more than 10 seconds, I was able to print out
Adam Opel AG
five prospective children for Patty's adoptive mother to review," says
Reducing UNA of hazardous
waste-causing materials
Karen Colalongo, regional child adoption coordi-
Consortium for International
nator at the NAE and Patty's social worker.
Earth Science Information
"When we first started out, we actually had a rec-
Network
Providinga Peteway to
FINALIST
ipe file box where we kept color-coded index cards
obtabases to help with public
on families, children and
policy dision-making
National
matches," says MariAnne
Marine Environmental
Technology Operation
Adoption
Clarke, deputy executive di-
Monitoring to protect the
aquatic ecosystem
Center
rector of the NAE. Now, the
Unix system has expanded
Chesapeake Bay Program
See story, page 102
to bulletin board services
Weyerhauser Co.
and electronic mail for social workers nation-
Modeling 80-year tree
wide to access.
harvesting scenarios to
protect owis and jobs
Via E-mail, social workers can easily find in-
Finance, insurance and
formation about interstate adoption, nontradi-
real estate
tional adoption (such as single parents and
Bank of America
transracial parents), disabilities and child wel-
Automating the handling of
Split-second database searching enabled
8 million transactions arlay
fare. They can also look beyond their local ju-
social workers to match Linda Bates Jones'
Chicago Board of Trade
risdiction and place children in other states.
profile (see screen above) with that of Patty
Handheld units let traders
The NAE is working on an on-line program
write in trade data. reducing
(see screen at right). In just three months,
paper
called "Faces of Adoption," which will be avail-
Patty (above, center) joined her new adoptive
Fannio Mae
able on the Internet this summer at http://
family (from left to right), Jones, Sherita and
On-line financial analysis for
www.adopt.org/adopt.
low-income chents who want
Raquel.
to buy homes
- By Joyce Chutchian-Ferranti, managing
Communed on page 102
editor, special projects
Making a difference, page 102
COMPUTERWORLD
JUNE 5, 1995
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Joey, born February 1982 is an adorable, bright eyed young man
with beautiful blonde hair, a winning smile and an enviable tan
after some time in the sun. Joey very much needs a permanent
family to call his own.
Joey has symptoms of a child with fetal alcohol syndrome. This
probably accounts for his small head and petite stature. His facial
features also appear characteristic of someone with fetal alcohol
syndrome.
Joey takes medication for seizures and has been diagnosed with
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). He is in a class
for children with behavior problems and functions between the
second (2nd) and fourth (4th) grade level. Joey does not yet know
how to tell time and school and homework are a challenge.
Download Picture
He likes to watch television and loves outdoor activities. He
Joey
especially enjoys going camping and taking trips to the lake with
his foster family.
Born:
February, 1982
Age:
13
He has a good appetite! Joey even loves vegetables.
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Joey functions best in an environment with alot of structure. He is
used to a large family but would also adjust well to being part of a
small family.
DISABILITIES
Physical: None
Subsidy and purchase of service are possibilities.
Emotional: Moderate
Mental:
None
Learning: Moderate
Residence: Kentucky
ID Number: 346542
Updated: 10/09/95
If you are interested in adopting, please call one of the numbers listed below or send us e-mail.
Make sure you refer to the child's ID Number.
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Nicole, born November 1986, is a pretty little girl with a
bright smile. She has been in foster care since she was 9
months old and has had a number of placements including
an adoption disruption.
Her severe behavior problems have improved somewhat,
but she continues therapy and recently began taking
medication at the request of her therapist. She has been
diagnosed with Oppositional Defiant Behavior.
Nicole is an excellent student. She can be sweet and loving
Nicole
and is helpful with younger children and has done volunteer
ID#1346729
work in a senior citizen home with her previous foster
DOB 1111
mother.
Download Picture
Nicole likes to sing in her church choir. She is artistically
Nicole
inclined and loves to draw. In her leisure time, she enjoys
watching cartoons and the Fresh Prince of BelAir on
Born:
November, 1986
television.
Age:
9
Ethnicity: African
This little girl deserves the permanency and consistency of
American
a warm, loving adoptive family which can provide structure
and be tolerant of her behavior problems.
DISABILITIES
Subsidy and purchase of service are possibilities.
Physical: None
Emotional: Moderate
Mental:
None
Learning: None
Residence: Georgia
ID Number: 346729
Updated: 02/18/96
If you are interested in adopting, please call one of the numbers listed below or send us
e-mail. Make sure you refer to the child's ID Number.
CyberGuide
SMILING FACES
NRA Firearms Page
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Just what do the gun laws say? Check
out federal
U.S. National Debt Clock
regulations on
You won't believe how fast the national
interstate transport of
A
toddler smiles shyly at the
debt is rising! The longer you wait
firearms or click on one
camera. He's wearing a
World Wide Web: http://www.brillig
crisp white shirt with a
of the 50 states, Washing-
.com/debt_clock
round collar, a plaid bow tie,
ton, D.C., or New York City.
and a blue vest.
World Wide Web: http://www.nra.org
His is among the many faces
/NRA-FALAWS.htm1
How Would You Spend the
of children registered with the
National Budget?
National Adoption Center, a non-
Want to cut defense and give all
profit group working to expand
The File Room Censorship
your tax money to
adoption opportunities for kids
Archives
the National Endow-
with special needs.
This logically organized, easily acces-
The Center's Web site,
ment for the Arts?
Faces of Adoption: America's
sible archival site was developed to
This interactive
Waiting Children, co-spon-
promote discussion and bring attention
poll lets you do
sored by the like-minded orga-
to censorship throughout history.
the allocating.
nization Children Awaiting Par-
World Wide Web: http://fileroom
World Wide Web:
ents, contains photos and bios
aaup.uic.edu/FileRoom/documents
http://ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
of hundreds of children, most
/homepage.html
/~kundert//taxes/taxdollar.html
between the ages of 7 and 16.
Legislation of the 104th Congress
Institute for Better Education
Faces of Adoption
Scan all legislation introduced since
Through Resource Technology
January 1993, accessible by date, sub-
Peruse line-item details of the federal
ject, sponsor, chamber and type, words
budget, and afterward-if'you're
in title, words in text, or what's hot.
angry enough-you can download
Internet: gopher gopher.legislate
America's Walting Children
IBERT's budget simulator and submit
.com/hh/legislation/104
your own.
World Wide Web: http://ibert.org
Many are siblings who need to
stay together, and some have
physical, emotional, or learn-
RELATIONSHIPS
Third Millennium
ing disabilities.
See the national debt updated every
The children's stories are
Leslie's Guide to
minute and learn its history, test your
poignant, but the copy is never
Wedding Planning
sensational or sentimental. The
perceptions of the national budget,
With Leslie's big day
descriptions of the children and
and e-mail fellow citizens to help mo-
the challenges prospective par-
only a few months
bilize them to solve our country's
ents would face are detailed
away. she knows what
problems.
with honesty.
she's talking about! It's
World Wide Web: http://www
While the Faces of Adoption
a virtual wedding
Lsitespecific.com/3m/index.shtml
home page could be better orga-
checklist
nized, it also contains valuable
World Wide Web: http://
adoption information, such as
acm.vt.edu/-Ifowler/wed
NRA's Eddie Eagle Program
how to interview an agency, per-
/wedding.html
The National Rifle Association-spon-
sonal stories of adoptive par-
sored Eddie Eagle gun safety program
ents, and pending legislation.
This is a welcome online home
aims to teach kids who come across a
÷'≡ I Me Harlan!
for kids who are looking for a
firearm to "Stop! Don't touch! Leave
"forever family."
Harlan will try his best to help love-
the area. Tell an adult."
World Wide Web: http://www
wick or confused college students.
World Wide Web: http://users
.inet.net:80/adopt
What a guy!
Laol.com/Tavares/Eddie-Eagle-f
World Wide Web: http://ezinfo
/eddiemain.html
cs.indiana.edu/-hdcohen/
FEBRUARY, 1996 NETGUIDE
//www.netguide.com
See back
for fun
Alphonso, 13 and Evette, 11
kids'
Alphonso dreams.of growing up
games.
to be a carpenter or mechanic
Can you find a
Evette yearns to be a nurse."
in her pursuit to
help people
place in your heart
PHOTOCOB
for these children?
PRESERVATION
MI
ШИНГ
Antonio, 15,
loves roller-blading
playing video games
and watching movies when he
isn't pursuing his real love, art
LaQuinta, 4 & Travis, 3.4
When LaQuinta isn singing and
Marie, 12,
enjoys watching
When people think of
dancing, she can be found with
her dolls. Her brother Travis, is
Nickelodeon
adoption they often think of
typical of most boys his age with
riding her bike
newborns Well the fact is,
his love of cars and trucks.
and playing,
with dolls
there are thousands of older
kids and special needs children
who need the love and security
only a family can provide.
I should-know, I was adopted.
So, if you ve ever considered
adopting consider adopting a
Matthew, 11
special child. They grow up to
is a diehard
Dallas Cowboys
be special people.
fan, although his
talents, so far, lean towards
basketball and baseball.
Carole, 6,
Michael,
is a bright, engaging,
is currently living on
and talkative little girl:
a farm and loves to
WELLDONE!
take care of the
animals.
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to the table without stepping
on any?
Greg:
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Works!
Nick:
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Greg:
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Tom:
Why are you jumping up and down on
Wendy's delicious hamburger
the potato patch?
Joe:
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Start
toppings hidden in the scramble below?
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Onions
of salt.
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Cheese
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North American Council
North American Council
on Adoptable Children
on Adoptable Children
970 Raymond Avenue, Suite 106
970 Raymond Avenue, Suite 106
St. Paul, Minnesota 55114
St. Paul, Minnesota 55114
phone: 612-644-3036
ANN REHBEIN
fax: 612-644-9848
phone: 612-644-3036
JOE KROLL
fax: 612-644-9848
Special Events Coordinator
email: [email protected]
Executive Director
email: [email protected]
WHAT ARE ADOPTION
A SPECIAL INITIATIVE
"Children
BENEFITS?
who don't have
comprehensive adoption benefits package
The Adoption and the Workplace project is made
homes or families
will help employees by defraying adoption
possible through a grant from the W. K. Kellogg
aren't somebody
costs. providing leave time with the child and
Foundation through its Families for Kids initiative.
else's responsibility;
offering resources that aid in a smooth transi-
tion for all members of the family.
The National Adoption Center and the Dave Thomas
they're
Foundation for Adoption are working together to
Adoption benefits give employees:
our responsibility.
promote adoption benefits and provide information to
Information and referral services
Supporting
employers committed to supporting adoption.
Adoption is a per-
Reimbursement for adoption expenses
adoption
sonal thing for Dave
Paid/unpaid leave time
Families
ADOPTION
Thomas. Adopted when
is important to
forkids
he was six weeks old,
all of us."
he has said, "I wouldn't
BENEFITS
be where I am today
without a family."
The National Adoption Center, created in 1972,
ARE GOOD
ave has a lot of company. Each year, American
is a private, non-profit organization that expands
families adopt more than 100,000 children. They
adoption opportunities for children throughout the
come from the United States and other countries;
United States, especially for children with special
BUSINESS
they may be babies or older children; brothers and
needs and those from minority cultures.
sisters; children with disabilities.
No matter what type of child is adopted, the
adoption process demands time and money, and
creates stress that can affect job performance.
NATIONAL ADOPTION CENTER
"Our daughter
The National Adoption Center and the Dave
Thomas Foundation for Adoption have launched
ave Thomas, founder of Wendy's Restaurants,
has brought
the Adoption and the Workplace initiative to
established the Dave Thomas Foundation for
encourage you to offer adoption benefits. You can
Adoption to help the thousands of children waiting
us great joy.
ease the burden, maintain productivity and provide
to be adopted. The Foundation, a public charity,
equity for all of your employees creating families,
whether through birth or adoption.
works to raise awareness about the children and to
With employer
provide direct support for adoption programs.
And with less than one-half of 1% of any
DAVE THOMAS
support, many
employee population using these benefits in a year,
FOUNDATION
the package is extremely cost effective.
FORADOPTION
more families
The bottom line is
that adoption benefits
could adopt."
are good business.
Marcia Silverberg. Assistant Vice President
A WIN-WIN SCENARIO
Pat Eden. Manager
HOW CAN I LEARN MORE?
Human Resources at Mutual of New York (MONY)
Corporate Benefits at Fel-Pro, Inc.
EMPLOYERS BENEFIT BY:
The EMPLOYER'S GUIDE TO ADOPTION
"We have received excellent feedback from
"One of the greatest gifts a family can give is
employees about our adoption assistance program.
a home to a child who needs one. Fel-Pro is happy
BENEFITS, developed by the National Adoption
Adoption benefits are cost effective and family
Providing equity for all employees, whether they
to do whatever small part it can for employees
Center, can answer your questions and help you
friendly. All employees. even those unlikely to use
who choose adoption. This has been an excellent
choose parenthood through adoption or birth
implement an adoption benefits package that fits
the benefits. appreciate that MONY is supporting
addition to our benefits package."
your organization's individual needs. This free
adoption as part of its work/life package.'
Recognizing that stable families mean responsible,
package includes:
productive employees
The rationale for employer-supported benefits
Becoming an industry leader in a pace-setting,
family-focused effort
Components of a model policy
Generating good will among employees and
Specifics on implementing the plan
throughout the community
Sample adoption benefits policies and recom-
mendations
Lists of employers that provide benefits
EMPLOYEES BENEFIT BY:
To receive a copy of the Employer's Guide to
Receiving financial assistance that can make the
Adoption Benefits and more information, please
difference in their ability to adopt
contact:
Knowing their employer is supportive
Adoption Benefits Coordinator
National Adoption Center
Obtaining leave time to be with their child
1500 Walnut Street, Suite 701
before/after adoption
Philadelphia, Pa 19102
(215) 735-9988
THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS WHEN:
Employers take the lead in supporting adoption
Employers are committed to family/life issues
Families adopt children who live in foster or
group care settings*
*More than 100,000 children are waiting to be adopted
in the United States. Widespread adoption benefits
could encourage more adoptions and bring children who
need homes together with prospective parents.
o
What is the National Adoption Center?
Programs of the National Adoption Center
Who Adopts Waiting Children?
The Center is a private, non-profit organization
There is considerable diversity among those
that expands adoption opportunities for
who adopt. An adoptive parent can be single or
children throughout the United States,
married; of modest or above-average income;
especially for children with special needs and
be childless or have children born to them.
those from minority cultures.
They share the desire to parent and the
commitment to adopt a waiting child.
The Center is not an adoption agency and
does not have children in its care; rather, it
Those interested in learning more about
works closely with adoption agencies,
adoption can contact the National Adoption
suggesting matches between families and
Center and speak with an Adoption
children listed on its national registry. Through
Coordinator.
the Center, children waiting to be adopted are
brought to the attention of families interested in
adopting them.
Can Those Who Adopt Receive
Financial Help?
Financial assistance is available to help a family
raise the majority of children listed on the
Center's registry. Adoption subsidies or
payments differ from state to state, but all
provide help with daily expenses and medical
care. Fees for services, such as speech therapy
or occupational therapy, may be covered.
How is the National Adoption Center
Funded?
The Center receives funding from foundations,
corporations and grants. Money raised from
individual donations, contributions and
fundraisers supports the Center's special
Who are the Waiting Children?
projects.
Many people associate adoption with babies.
But, today, most of the children who need
Each year, federal employees and members of
families are older and have special needs. Of
the military contribute to the Center through
the 100,000 children waiting to be adopted in
the Children's Charities of America during the
this country, more than half are African
Combined Federal Campaign. The Center
American. Other waiting children include:
also participates in state employee campaigns
as an agency/member of Independent Charities
of America.
those with physical or emotional disabilities
those with mental retardation
school-age children, many of whom are
teenagers
brothers and sisters who need homes
together
What is the History of the Center?
The Center began, in 1972, as a volunteer
organization of Philadelphia-area adoptive
parents working with social workers to find
adoptive homes for children with special needs.
Their efforts grew into a regional organization.
National
In 1982, the Center became national and now
has a regional affiliate, the Adoption Center of
Delaware Valley.
Adoption
How is the Center Governed?
Center
A Board of Directors oversees the work of the
National Adoption Center. It includes 31
community, business and professional men and
women and 25 non-voting affiliate members
who work on board committees and attend
board functions.
Honorary Board of Governors
T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Barbara Bush
Dolores Hope
Bill Cosby
Louis Jourdan
Christel DeHaan
Wayne Newton
"There are по
John Denver
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
unwanted children,
just unfound
families."
NATIONAL ADOPTION CENTER
1500 Walnut Street, Suite 701
Philadelphia, PA 19102
215-735-9988
1-800-TO-ADOPT
Public Education and Recruitment
Public Policy
Many people are unaware that there are
Advocacy for children waiting to be
thousands of children who wait to be adopted.
adopted is at the core of the Center's
The children live in foster care or group
mission.
homes until a permanent home is found.
Among the issues on which the Center
To tell their stories and encourage people to
has worked have been :
adopt, the National Adoption Center works
closely with the media. Adoption stories have
the establishment or improvement of
appeared on television and radio, including
adoption benefits for adoptive families
the Phil Donahue Show, Good Morning
America, the Today Show and CNN. Essence
the expansion of the federal Adoption
Magazine, Family Circle, Redbook and
Opportunities Act that provides
Reader's Digest are among the many national
funding for the recruitment of minority
publications that have highlighted the children
who wait.
adoptive families and post adoption
services.
In the Philadelphia area, KYW-TV 3 produces
The Center works collaboratively with
a regular waiting child feature as does The
other national adoption and child welfare
Philadelphia Inquirer, The Sunday Sun, The
organizations and is a member agency of
Philadelphia Tribune and many community
the Child Welfare League of America and
newspapers. Special efforts are being made to
the Adoption Exchange Association.
reach prospective parents in the African
American community.
The National Adoption Exchange:
Special Projects
The National Adoption Exchange is the
Research:
country's only national computerized
The Center's research component
registry for children and families.
Through a telecommunications network,
produced the landmark study, "Who
its more than 100 members - private
Adopts Children with Special Needs?"
and public agencies, state and regional
and launched a program to encourage
exchanges, parent groups and national,
corporations to establish adoption
professional child welfare organizations
benefits for their employees.
- are provided with a variety of services,
including:
Training and Consultation:
Child and Family Databases:
The Center provides consultation to
Names and descriptions of thousands of
agencies, exchanges and organizations in
children with special needs and those
practice issues. It sponsors conferences
from minority cultures are listed on this
and workshops, often featuring
national registry. So are prospective
nationally-acclaimed speakers, who focus
adoptive parents-couples and single
on the needs of adoptive families and
persons who have been approved by a
professionals.
licensed adoption agency. They may
register themselves or be registered by
their agencies. Through the registry, a
Post Adoption Services:
child in New York, for instance, can be
"matched" with a family in Florida.
After a. family has adopted, it may need
support, information and help with family
Bulletin Board:
issues. The Center offers post-adoption
services to adoptive families and
This feature provides current information
on pertinent adoption issues, lists of
publishes a quarterly newsletter that
describes workshops, conferences,
upcoming conferences, a reference
section with state-by-state resources,
support group meetings and resources for
updates on legislation and funding
those in the Delaware Valley.
sources, as well as many other topics of
interest to professionals and adoptive
parents.
E-Mail:
This electronic "postal service" provides
a forum through which members may
communicate with individuals or groups.
It is an easy way to share information.
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The
Friendly User
Newsletter of the National Adoption Exchange
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Faces of Adoption: http://www.adopt.org/adopt
Volume 36
February 1996
taining valuable adoption-related information
that is frequently updated and expanded. This
work is being done in conjunction with CAP
(Children Awaiting Parents), who share this two-
year grant with the Center.
Sue Badeau, Project Manager of the Ex-
changing Technologies Program, has surveyed
Exchanges throughout the country to find out
about their use of technology and is sharing that
information with the Center's Tech Team.
Maggie Marshall, Information Specialist for
The "Tech Team" (back I. to r.): MariAnne
the NAE, has been uploading interesting infor-
Clarke, Russell Heid, Doug Weber (front
mation onto the Bulletin Board. Members are
/. to r.): Sue Badeau, and Sue Flaxman
encouraged to add information that they would
like to share; a step-by-step guide on how to do
Tech team tuning up
this is included on page 4.
Russell Heid, Marketing Specialist, has be-
gun contacting NAE members to help with any
New faces abound at the National Adoption
problems and discuss new services being de-
Center, as the computer "Tech Team" grows to
veloped.
meet the Center's expanding use of computers
Doug Weber, Management Consultant, is
to create families. Our "techies," who bring a
organizing the new database design and instal-
wealth of adoption and computer experience
lation plan that will allow the Exchange to be
to their positions and are working together to
seen on the Internet.
incorporate the Exchange onto the Internet.
MariAnne Clarke, the Center's Deputy Ex-
ecutive Director, has been with the Center for
15 years. Her interest in technology has led the
Placement News
Center to find new ways to utilize computers to
A recent placement has been made as a
match children and families and provide up-to-
direct result of an NAE computer-generated
date information to adoption professionals and
match.
parents.
Jonathan, 6, and Matthew, 9, siblings from
Sue Flaxman, Project Manager of Faces of
Texas, were placed with a single mother in
Adoption, is actively adding photographs and
Indiana. Jonathan has cerebral palsy. Mat-
descriptions of waiting children to our Internet
thew is legally blind. Their new mom is a
site. To date, there are more than 125 listings.
physical therapist and has adopted other spe-
She oversees AdoptionQuest, a feature com
cial needs children.
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Adoption
Update
Summer/Fall 1995
A publication of the National Adoption Center &
the Adoption Center of Delaware Valley
"Faces of Adoption"
on the Internet
Interested families have yet another
tool in their quest to adopt--their home
computers. An innovative program,
"Faces of Adoption: America's Waiting
Children," allows families to "meet"
children through a computerized photo
listing book on the Internet. Families
can search for specific types of children
or browse through the listing of the
hundreds of available American chil-
dren.
In addition, users can find a wealth
POL
of adoption-related information,
including articles, "how-to guides,"
bibliographies, resource lists, and
postings of conferences and seminars.
The Inglese family, from Tobyhanna, PA. L. to R.: Nick, 13, Larry, and Jason, 14,
All that's needed is a computer,
modem and an Internet account (i.e.
shared their adoption story with families who attended a Center-sponsored Match
America Online, Prodigy, CompuServe),
Party in Allentown, PA.
and the specialized software received
Family Talks of Adjustment to Adoption
from the on-line service. "Faces of
Adoption" can be found on the World
When Larry Inglese saw 12-year-old
This love was tested often during the
Wide Web at http://www.adopt.org/
Jason at a Center-sponsored Match
stormy first months after Jason's arrival
adopt. See you on-line!
Party, he knew immediately that he
at his new home. He was having trouble
wanted to make Jason a part of his
following the rules of the house, trouble
family.
getting along with his new brother,
Table of Contents
"I had absolutely no plans of adopting
Nick, and a lot of trouble in school.
Family Talks of Adjustment
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a teenager two years ago," remembers
"It was a difficult adjustment," says
Faces on the Internet
I
Inglese. "I was interested in adopting a
Inglese. "I was getting daily calls from
Executive Director's Message
2
child with severe physical disabilities or
the school telling me that Jason was
Maury Povich Update
2
mental retardation--someone whom I
completely out of control."
Annual Giving Information
3
thought nobody wanted."
He was verbally abusive to his
Post Adoption Conferences
3
But what Inglese found at the party,
teachers and classmates, aggressive and
Dates to Remember
3
where families approved for adoption
disruptive. The school was preparing to
Waiting Children
4-5
met waiting children, was another group
move him out of classes for children
of children--teenage boys who have been
with learning disabilities and have him
Wendy's Efforts
6
in the foster care system for too long and
reclassified as "socially and emotionally
Employee Adoption Benefits
6
are usually the last to be adopted. From
disturbed."
Legislative Notes
6
this group, Inglese spotted Jason. "I fell
During this turbulent time, Inglese
Center Happenings
7
in love with Jason the moment I met
was in constant contact with social
Special Thanks
8
him."
(continued on p. 2)
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