This Information Memorandum (IM) announces an amendment to Title IV-E Adoption Assistance for Children who are Voluntarily Relinquished to Private, Nonprofit Agencies (Amends Policy on Children who are Voluntarily Relinquished to a Private, Nonprofit Agency set forth in ACYF-CB-PA-01-01). Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

The purposes of Public Law 100-505, the Abandoned Infants Assistance Act of 1998 as amended, are to provide funds for the development, implementation and operation of demonstration projects designed to prevent the abandonment of infants and young children, including the provision of services to members of the natural family for any condition that increases the probability of abandonment; to identify and address the needs of abandoned infants and young children; to carry out residential care programs for abandoned infants and young children who are unable to reside with their families or are to be placed in foster care; to recruit, train and retain foster families for abandoned infants and young children; to carry out programs of respite care for families and foster families of abandoned infants and young children; to recruit and train health and social services personnel to work with families, foster families and residential care programs for abandoned infants and young children; to prevent the abandonment of infants and young children; and to care for abandoned infants and young children through model programs, providing health, educational and social services at a single site in a geographic area where a significant number of abandoned infants and young children reside. The legislation also allows for the provision of technical assistance training programs to support the planning, development and operation of the service demonstration projects. The reauthorized legislation (Section 101 (h) of P.L. 100-505, as amended) mandates that the Secretary shall give priority to applicants located in States that have developed and implemented procedures for expedited termination of parental rights and placement for adoption of infants determined to be abandoned under State law. This section of the Compendium describes the 15 Abandoned Infants Program Service Demonstration Projects initially funded in FY 2001 under the following priority areas: 2001C.1: Support for Previous Comprehensive Service Demonstration Projects 2001C.3: Family Support Services for Grandparents and Other Relatives Providing Care for Children and Substance Abusing and HIV-Positive Women 2001C.4: Recreational Services for Children Affected by HIV/AIDS Mission Inn Services is an Abandoned Infants Assistance Demonstration Project in a four-county area of West Michigan. The goal of Mission Inn is to promote safe, secure, permanent, nurturing families for infants and young children who are at risk of abandonment or who have been abandoned. Mission Inn accomplishes this through a program that coordinates health, educational, and social services for such infants and children, as well as their caregivers. The Mission Inn Project will provide home-based, wraparound services to families in the geographic area to identify and achieve a variety of family-identified, family-centered goals related to providing a safe, permanent, nurturing environment that fosters developmental growth in children. The Epiphany Center Day Treatment Program is part of Mount St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth, a multi-service agency that has a 149-year history of providing services to San Francisco's troubled families. The primary goal of the Epiphany STAR (Services to Accelerate Reunification) Project is to prevent the abandonment of infants who have been born into families impacted by substance abuse and/or HIV-related issues. The overall aim of Project Stable Home (PSH) at Children's Institute International (CII) is to reduce out-of-home placements of young children and to improve the quality and stability of their living conditions. PSH's services are specifically designed to assist pregnant women and families of young children who are vulnerable to abandonment as a result of parental substance abuse, HIV status, mental illness, poverty, or other risk factors. The program proposes to provide expanded services for HIV-infected mothers and/or children through a newly formed partnership with Caring for

This Program Regulation (PR) provides information on the Office of Human Development Services issuing a regulation which describes the systems and programs that the Secretary will find satisfactory as meeting the requirements of Section 427 of the Social Security Act (the Act). The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (P.L. 96-272) amended the Social Security Act. The amended Act requires that in order to be eligible-- (1) for title IV-B funds in excess of its proportionate share of $141 million (Sec. 427(a)) Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

This Information Memorandum (IM) provides title IV-E adoption assistance and use of title XX social services block grant funds for post-adoption services and title IV-E funds for training. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

The major efforts mandated by the authorizing Adoption Opportunities program legislation, section 205 of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment and Adoption Reform Act of 1978, as amended (P.L. 95-266) are developing and implementing a national adoption and foster care data gathering and analysis system; developing and implementing a national adoption information exchange system; developing and implementing an adoption training and technical assistance program; increasing services in support of the placement in adoptive families of minority children who are in foster care and have the goal of adoption with a special emphasis on the recruitment of minority families; increasing post-legal adoption services for families who have adopted children with special needs; studying the nature, scope, and effects of the placement of children in kinship care arrangements and pre-adoptive or adoptive homes; and studying the efficacy of States' contracting with public and private non-profit agencies (including community-based and other organizations). In these areas, research and demonstration grants are awarded through a competitive process to States, local government entities, Federally recognized Indian tribes and tribal organizations, colleges and universities, public or private non-profit licensed child welfare agencies, adoption exchanges and community-based organizations with experience working with minority populations. This section of the Compendium describes the 16 Adoption Opportunities projects funded in FY 2001 under the following priority areas: 2001A.1: Achieving Increased Adoptive Placements for Children in Foster Care 2001A.2: Field Initiated Demonstration Projects Advancing the Sate of the Art in the Adoption Field 2001A.3: Quality Improvement Centers on Adoption 2001A.4: Evaluations of Existing Adoption Programs Through this grant, the New York State Office of Children and Family Services/New York State Adoption Service (OCFS/NYSAS), in collaboration with New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS), intends to address the hardest of New York State's adoption cases by finding permanent adoptive homes for 65 of New York State's "Longest Waiting Children." Many of these children are in therapeutic foster boarding homes, group homes, and residential treatment centers and are seen as having multiple barriers to finalization. In addition to finding homes for these children, OCFS/NYSAS will identify, analyze, and develop strategies to address the barriers that have kept these children without adoptive homes for an average of 8.6 years after freeing. These strategies will be incorporated into training for caseworkers. The Missouri Department of Social Services' Division of Family Services endeavors to increase the number of children adopted from foster care through the Missouri Adoption Continuum project. This project provides unique pre-placement and post-adoption support services that complement existing programs and that are designed to strengthen the adoption process. In doing so, it endeavors to work collaboratively with public and private agencies to expedite permanency for 500 children from foster care. Specifically, the Missouri Adoption Continuum, through innovative recruitment and marketing services, plans to collaborate with public and private agencies and foster/adoptive parent associations to forge a 20% increase in the number of adoptive families for children embodied in foster care. In addition, the program will develop and implement a statewide training program for 40 adoptive parents to mentor prospective adoptive parents from initial inquiry through placement of a special needs child. The Missouri Adoption Continuum will also initiate a respite network by recruiting and training 70 respite providers who will serve adoptive families throughout the state. The project will conduct a comprehensive, outcome-based evaluation of its program and will disseminate the results. The grantee will establi

This Information Memorandum (IM) informs title IV-E agencies that for adoption assistance agreements entered into on or after October 1, 2017, eligibility for title IV-E adoption assistance must be determined using the “applicable child” eligibility criteria described in section 473(a)(2)(C)(ii) of the Social Security Act. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

National Council for Adoption, Washington, D.C.National in scope 6,112,916 Spaulding for Children, Southfield, MichiganState-wide in scope with a national dissemination plan 1,368,166 Harmony Adoptions of Tennessee, Maryville, TNRegional in scope 626,430 Arizona Children Association, Tucson, ArizonaState-wide in scope 515,116 Second and third year amounts to be negotiated, dependent on the availability of funds and success of first year efforts. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.

This Program Regulation (PR) provides notice of proposed rulemaking -- title IV-E adoption assistance program; nonrecurring expenses. Metadata-only record linking to the original dataset. Open original dataset below.