title: Hope for the children: a community-based approach to supporting families who adopt children with special needs.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human and Community Development, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kramer
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Houston
mesh_terms: 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