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ERIC Number: EJ593699
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-4021
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Hope for the Children: A Community-Based Approach to Supporting Families Who Adopt Children with Special Needs.
Kramer, Laurie; Houston, Doris
Child Welfare, v78 n5 p611-35 Sep-Oct 1999
Notes that adoptive families have formal (agency-related) and informal (indigenous) resources to draw on for assistance with a variety of issues. Describes Hope for the Children (HFTC) program located in Rantoul, Illinois, a created community designed to foster permanence of special-needs adoptions, in which adoptive families live alongside agency and indigenous supporters to provide a wrap-around support network. (LBT)
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Illinois
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