Adoption & Foster Care

  Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives  Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Program and Fiscal Design Elements of Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Topical Paper #2 December 2007

  Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives  Assessing Their Implications for the Child Welfare Field and for Federal Child Welfare Programs Assessing Site Readiness: Considerations about Transitioning to a Privatized Child Welfare System Topical Paper #1 September 2007

Contents Methodology Description of Nonresident Fathers of Foster Children Findings on Identifying Nonresident Fathers Findings on Locating and Contacting Nonresident Fathers Findings on Father Involvement

Adoption subsidies are perhaps the single most powerful tool by which the child welfare system can encourage adoption and support adoptive families. The federal Adoption Assistance Program was created by Congress in 1980 to ensure that families adopting foster children with special needs could do so without reducing or exhausting their resources.

Background Adoption subsidies are perhaps the single-most powerful tool by which the child welfare system can encourage adoption and support adoptive families. Yet little is known about the factors associated with the receipt and amount of subsidies.

Prepared by: Barbara Dalberth, Deborah Gibbs, and Nancy Berkman RTI International RTI Project Number 07578.006