Every year, more and more children in foster care find permanent homes with relatives when they cannot return to live with their parents. Most children will find permanent homes through relative adoption, which continued to increase throughout the decade. In 2000, 21 percent of the children adopted from foster care were adopted by relatives. By 2007, relative adoptions from foster care accounted for 28 percent of the children exiting foster care.

This publication was a collaborative effort between ChildFocus and the North American Council on Adoptable Children

As the parent/legal guardian of a child, youth or young adult (referred to as youth in this handbook) enrolled in PerformCare, we are very excited about helping your youth and family get necessary services. This guide is designed to help you get the care that your youth needs. The information in this guide is about the behavioral health services (when we say behavioral health we are talking about behavioral, mental health or emotional challenges) available to your youth.

Call PerformCare at 1-877-652-7624 if you have any questions about the information found in this guide.

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Family Law
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Published by
Family Law
A publishing imprint of Jordan Publishing Limited
21 St Thomas Street
Bristol BSI 6JS
For the Hague Conference on Private International Law
Permanent Bureau
6, Scheveningseweg
2517 KT The Hague
The Netherlands
Telephone +31(0)70 363 3303 fax +31(0)70 360 4867
e-mail secretariat@hcch.net website http://www.hcch.net
© Hague Conference on Private International Law 2012

What’s Inside:
• Differences between foster parenting and adopting
• Advantages of foster parent adoption
• Strategies for foster/adoptive families
• Conclusion
• Resources
• References

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Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children’s Bureau/ACYF 1250 Maryland Avenue,
SW Eighth Floor Washington, DC 20024 800.394.3366
Email: info@childwelfare.gov
https://www.childwelfare.gov

What’s Inside:
• Talking with children about the changes
• Helping children understand their histories and losses
• Helping children cope with trauma and loss
• Helping children transfer attachments
• Conclusion
• Resources

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Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children’s Bureau/ACYF 1250 Maryland Avenue,
SW Eighth Floor Washington, DC 20024 800.394.3366
Email: info@childwelfare.gov
https://www.childwelfare.gov

What’s Inside:
• Federal Title IV-E Adoption Assistance
• State adoption assistance
• Arranging adoption assistance

Published by:

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children’s Bureau/ACYF 1250 Maryland Avenue,
SW Eighth Floor Washington, DC 20024 800.394.3366
Email: info@childwelfare.gov
https://www.childwelfare.gov

This book provides some of the knowledge needed to help you in your important role as a parent. Learning more about parenting and child development can make a world of difference for both you and your child. Increasing your understanding, together with your love for your child, can help you become a better parent – a very special person in your child’s world.
You expect a lot from your child … but your child’s age determines what you’ll get.
Parents somehow know that their child is not always going to behave perfectly. A child’s needs and actions change as he or she grows older, and all children develop at different rates. This is perfectly normal. However, knowing what to expect as your child goes through the different stages of life can help you a great deal. On the following pages you’ll find some behavior traits to expect as your child grows into an adult.

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Published by: Department of Children and Families

The purpose of this guide is to support adoptive and foster families by strengthening the abilities of pediatricians to:

1) identify traumatized children,
2) educate families about toxic stress and the possible biological, behavioral, and social manifestations of early childhood trauma, and
3) empower families to respond to their child’s behavior in a manner that acknowledges past trauma but promotes the learning of new, more adaptive reactions to stress.

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© 2013 American Academy of Pediatrics and Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption

What’s inside:

• Defining a sibling relationship • Legal framework for protecting sibling connections • The importance of siblings • Sibling relationships in abusive or neglectful families • Benefits of placing siblings together • Barriers to placing siblings together • Practices for keeping siblings together in placement • When siblings cannot live in the same home • Maintaining ties between separated siblings • Sibling issues within the foster or adoptive family.

Published by:

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Children’s Bureau/ACYF 1250 Maryland Avenue,
SW Eighth Floor Washington, DC 20024 800.394.3366
Email: info@childwelfare.gov
https://www.childwelfare.gov