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Adoption Training Resources

This resource page for Adoption professionals provides training resources and information.  You can find Florida Statute, Administrative Code, and DCF Operating Procedures relating to adoption.  Florida adoption training curriculum and links to other resources are also available. In addition, there is information on strategies and best practice for recruitment and matching children and families and finding permanency for older youth.
Recruitment and Matching
Barriers and Success Factors - Summary Report
Summary report for the 'Barriers Study' completed by the Center for Social Work Research. Full report available at link below.
Barriers and Success Factors in Adoption from Foster Care (2007)
Results of national adoption research studies from the Collaboration to Adopt US Kids and the Center for Social Work Research - Univ of Texas
Child Specific Recruitment (2002)
Publication from NRCFCPP offering information on targeted recruitment stategies
Finding a Fit that Will Last a Lifetime - A Guide to Connecting Adoptive Families with Waiting Children (2006)
This guide focuses on best practices in matching waiting children in FC with adoptive families through sharing strategies that families, youth, caseworkers, and researchers have found to be the most effective.
Getting More Parents for Children from Your Recruitment Efforts (2002)
This guide contains tips and information that agencies or individuals can use to improve results of adoption and FC family recruitment efforts.
Good Customer Service - What Public Welfare Workers Should Know About International Adoptions
Brief publication from the National Resource Center for Adoptions outlining what public agencies can do to increase the number of families who adopt from the public system rather than internationally.
Lasting Impressions - A Guide for Photolisting Children
This guide focuses on strategies for effective recruitment of adoptive families through the use of print media and the Internet to photolist foster children awaiting placement in adoptive homes.
Recruitment Work Plan Guide for Adoption and FC Program Managers
The purpose of this guide is to provide guidance to incorporate national recruitment campaigns into existing state and local programs. It also helps states address CFSR requirements and provide tools specific to recruitment issues to enhance their Child and Family Services Recruitment plan.
Wherever My Family Is - That's Home - Adoption Services for Military Families
This guide identifies the issues and barriers surrounding military families involved in fostering and adopting children in the CW system. It also provides information on promising practices and strategies for overcoming barriers.
Adoption and Older Youth
Enhancing Permanency for Older Youth in Out of Home Care (2006)
Child Welfare Information Gateway Bulletin for Professionals providing stategies and best practice for finding permanency for older youth
Foster Youth's Views of Adoption and Permanency (2008)
An Urban Institute research brief from focus groups with youth in 2007
Six Steps to Find a Family
A guide to finding permanency for older youth in care
Laws and Policy
Adoption Assistance Program
Florida Statute 409.166
Adoption Matching and Approval
Florida Administrative Code 65-C 16
Adoption Statute
Florida Statutes Chapter 63
Adoption Tax Credit
IRS Topic 607 - Tax laws regarding the adoption tax credit
Florida Adoption Exchange User Guide
DCF Pamphlet #175-4 provides detailed information on using the Florida Adoption Exchange System
Title IV-E Foster Care and Adoption Subsidy
DCF Operating Procedure 175-71
Tuition and Fee Exemption
Florida Statute 1009.25
Interstate Adoptions
ICPC Resources Page
Link to Center resource page on ICPC
Info-Bits by State - Private Adoptions
Information gathered by DCF summarizing the requirements of other states in relation to private adoptions
Private Adoption Entity Checklist
DCF checklist used when requesting an ICPC Private Adoption Home Study in another state
Public Agency Adoption Checklist-Outgoing
DCF checklist used when requsting a public agency in another state to complete an ICPC Adoption Home Study
Other Training Resources and Information
Adoptions Participant Guide
Florida Pre-Service Curriculum
Adoptions Trainer Guide
Florida Pre-Service Curriculum
Adoptions Trainer PowerPoint
Florida Pre-Service Curriculum
Adoption vs Long Term Relative Care
Florida fact sheet comparing the financial benefits of adoption and relative care
Florida's Adoption Reunion Registry
Link to DCF site providing contact information for the Reunion Registry
Guide to Achieving Adoptions Through Public-Private Contracting - 2007
This guide is designed to provide agencies with information that can help them develop strong purchase of adoption services contracts to benefit the children and families they serve.
Keys to Success in Expediting Adoptions
On-line video training/documentary presentation of Duval County's strategies that have resulted in unprecedented success in achieving permanency through adoption
On-line Training on MEPA Compliance
Link to the National Resource Center for Adoption to view their video that offers information on federal laws pertaining to the consideration of race and adoptive placement and practical guidance on maintaining compliance with those laws
Openness in Adoption
Child Welfare Information Gateway Bulletin for Professionals offering information on laws, research, and implication of open adoptions
Postadoption Contact Agreements Between Birth and Adoptive Families
Child Welfare Information Gateway publication providing a summary of state laws on allowing post adoption contact with birth families
Training Curriculm
Includes all Pre-Service training curriculum, QCM materials, and Supervising for Excellence (SFE) materials
  
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Adoption vs Long-Term Relative Care.pdf
Adoption vs Long-Term Relative CareUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Financial Aspects of Adoption v Long -Term Relative Care"Adoption"; Medicaid; TANF
BarriersandSuccessFactors.pdf
BarriersandSuccessFactorsUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Summary of Full Report
Enhancing Permanency for Older Youth in Out of Home Care.pdf
Enhancing Permanency for Older Youth in Out of Home CareUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A Bulletin for Professionals, June 2006out of home care; ohc; Permanency; Length of Stay; Relative Caregivers; Kinship; Relative Placement; RCG
FL adoption exchange user guide.pdf
FL adoption exchange user guideUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
Fl Adoption Exchange System Sept. 12, 2005"Adoption Exchange System"; "Adoption"
GoodCustomerService.pdf
GoodCustomerServiceUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
From the National Resource Center for Adoption
Information Packet-Child Specific Recruitment.pdf
Information Packet-Child Specific RecruitmentUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
National Resource Center for Foster Care & Permanency Planning, August 2002"adoption recruitment"
Openness in Adoption.pdf
Openness in AdoptionUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A Bulletin For Professionals, February 2003"Adoption & Related Services"
Parenting the Adopted Adolescent.pdf
Parenting the Adopted AdolescentUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A Factsheet for Families, 1995"Adoption & Related Services"
Postadoption Contact Agreements Between Birth and Adoptive Families.pdf
Postadoption Contact Agreements Between Birth and Adoptive FamiliesUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
State Statutes Series, December 2005"Adoption & Related Services"
Transracial and Transcultural Adoption.pdf
Transracial and Transcultural AdoptionUse SHIFT+ENTER to open the menu (new window).
A Factsheet for Families 1994"Adoption & Related Services"
   

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