Hope for the children: a community-based approach to supporting families who adopt children with special needs.
This study explored the need for and use of support by preadoptive families of children with special needs in the Hope for the Children program. The families live in a community alongside other foster and adoptive parents, senior citizen volunteers, tutors, therapists, mentors, and family advocates, and receive extensive community supports. Descriptive results from the study provide a basis for recommendations about the use of coordinated service delivery systems to promote adoption success.
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Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA.
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D000300:Adoption / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D002652:Child Behavior; D019058:Community Networks; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012106:Research; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires