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Adoption USA: A Chartbook Based on the 2007

Adoption USA: A Chartbook Based on the 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents

Adoption USA presents findings from the first nationally representative survey of adoptive parents in the United States. About two percent of U.S. children joined their families through adoption. The chartbook describes the characteristics, adoption experiences, and well-being of these children and their families, making comparisons between ad
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Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP),

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2010

The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages are calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1 through September 30 of the indicated year. The "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" and "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages
From: Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2010
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Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP),

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2009

The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages are calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1 through September 30 of the indicated year. The "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" and "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages
From: Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2009
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Literature Review and Synthesis: Existing Surveys

Literature Review and Synthesis: Existing Surveys on Health Information Technology, including Surveys on Health Information Technology in Nursing Homes and Home Health

In an effort to better understand the adoption and use rates of electronic health records (EHRs) and other health information technology (HIT) applications in nursing homes and home health agencies, the University of Colorado was contracted to: (i) review the literature on surveys on adoption, use, and barriers to HIT adoption and use by nursing h
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Cost Effectiveness Considerations in the Approval

Cost Effectiveness Considerations in the Approval and Adoption of New Health Technologies

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) commissioned The Lewin Group (Lewin) to determine how and to what extent cost-effectiveness (CE) considerations are incorporated in the approval and adoption of new health technologies and the implications of not incorporating such considerations. This report examines the use
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Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP),

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2008

The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages are calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1 through September 30 of the indicated year. The "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" and "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages
From: Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2008
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Assessing the Economics of EMR Adoption and

Assessing the Economics of EMR Adoption and Successful Implementation in Physician Small Practice Settings

By: Moshman Associates, Booz, Allen, Hamilton This report is currently only available in PDF format.
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Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP),

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2007

The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages are calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1 through September 30 of the indicated year. The "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" and "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages
From: Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2007
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Understanding Adoption Subsidies: An Analysis of

Understanding Adoption Subsidies: An Analysis of AFCARS Data

Using data from the federal Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS), this report explores patterns of adoption subsidy receipt, how subsidies are related to adoption outcomes such as the rate of adoptions among eligible children and how quickly eligible children are adopted. Questions of interest include how extensively sub
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Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP),

Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2006

The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages are calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1 through September 30 of the indicated year. The "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" and "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages
From: Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2006
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Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care

Report to the Congress on Kinship Foster Care

The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 directed the Secretary of HHS to develop this report to Congress. This report was prepared with the input of the Advisory Panel on Kinship Care which met in October 1998 and January 1999. The report has two parts. Part I reviews the academic and related research literature on kinship care, including what
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Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services:

Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models and Evaluation Issues. Summary Report

The Summary Report presents a brief description of each study component, with a concluding discussion of the current status of post-adoption services and strategies to move the field forward. The study components include a literature review; case studies of five post-adoption service programs; an assessment of evaluation issues; and secondary anal
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Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services:

Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models and Evaluation Issues. Analysis of Secondary Data

The analysis of secondary data explored whether administrative data could be used to better understand the use of adoption subsidies for purchase of services and to describe the disruption, dissolution, and displacement of adoptions. Analyses from two states, California and North Carolina, demonstrate what could be done in other states with simila
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Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services:

Assessing the Field of Post-Adoption Services: Family Needs, Program Models and Evaluation Issues. Case Study Report

The Case Study component of the study used interviews with state adoption program managers and post adoption services coordinators/providers as well as focus groups with adoptive parents. Site visits to programs in five states — Georgia, Massachusetts, Oregon, Texas, and Virginia — included well-regarded programs that varied in structure and
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Notes

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Notes

The earnings of those in unsubsidized employment would be correctly captured as income from work in national surveys. Any welfare benefits associated with work experience, community service programs or other work activities, however, would be counted as income from welfare in most national surveys, a classification incompatible with the proposed
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ECONOMIC SECURITY RISK FACTOR 1. POVERTY RATES

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2005 . Economic Security Risk Factor 1. Poverty Rates

Figure ECON 1. Percentage of Persons in Poverty, by Age: 1959-2003 Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, “Poverty in the United States: 2003,” Current Population Reports , Series P60-226 and data published online at http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html.
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Adoption USA. A Chartbook Based on the 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents. Notes

i Parents who were related to their child prior to the adoption were not asked about whether they had pre-adoption agreements regarding openness.
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Adoption USA. A Chartbook Based on the 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents. Notes

i Estimate based on weighted data from the NSAP. This estimate excludes children in informal adoptions (i.e., without legally finalized adoptions) as well as those living with at least one biological parent, most of whom are living in step families. Further information about the population of adopted children represented by the NSAP is available
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Appendix tables

Adoption USA. A Chartbook Based on the 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents. Appendix tables

Table 1. Number and percentage distribution of children ages 0-17 by adoptive status; number and percentage distribution of adopted children1 ages 0-17 by various characteristics: United States, 2007
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Endnotes

Adoption USA. A Chartbook Based on the 2007 National Survey of Adoptive Parents. Endnotes

1 See: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. 2006. The basics of adoption practice. Available online at: www.Childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_basicsbullentin/.

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