Paper was presented at the CWLA Southwest Regional Conference at Fort Worth, Texas, 1970 (JE)

Addressed to practitioners working with adoptive families, this book examines the question: How do professionals help children and families make transracial adoptions and foster care placements work? The book describes specific ways to ensure that children develop positive racial and cultural identities and how professionals can better serve…

Reports on the re-examination of recent underestimates of the number of adoptions of foster care children. Notes that underestimates resulted from under-reporting by states, use of inappropriate data as estimate bases, and real increases in the number of adoptions. (DLH)

This sourcebook makes conveniently available the relevant materials on child welfare that were formerly scattered in conference proceedings, professional journals, government publications, and special meeting reports. The book is a supplementary tool for those interested in teaching and learning about child welfare and emphasizes research in this…

Describes an adoption program, aggressively carried out, which not only achieved its goal of reducing the number of children in longterm foster care but had beneficial effects on other services by the agency. (MS)

Reviews the preliminary results of a research study designed to analyze the critical factors in the adoption of 78 older hard-to-place youths with severe emotional and learning disabilities. A high percentage of emotionally disturbed youths benefit from ties with adoptive families. Such placements are complex with varied outcomes. (Author/BB)

Collaboration of a public social service department and a public adoption department demonstrated that it was possible to find permanent adoptive homes for many children who were in foster care. (Editor)

Describes an "Aggressive Adoption" program designed to combat the problem of foster care "drift" by expanding the availability of adoption resources for children in the care of a small, public child welfare agency. (RH)

Laws and special projects to reduce unplanned long-term foster care are briefly described. Analysis of these laws and projects show that certain components are essential for effectiveness: clear definition of the goal as permanent planning; a review system; and training of agency staff. (Author/SE)

Interviewed 15 social workers to examine the use of Life Books for children in substitute family care. Results indicated the project was valuable in helping children integrate past and present experiences and develop a sense of identity. (JAC)

In study of kinship foster homes in New York City, questionnaires were given to social workers; kinship foster parents were interviewed, and kinship foster family records were analyzed. Results indicate that, in location where many kinship foster homes are used, permanency planning for children placed with relatives differs sharply from that for…

Examines issues related to antiracist social work as it impacts on the development of a fostering service for black children within a white agency in Scotland. Describes the social and legal context of social work with black children in Scotland and discusses underlying principles and concepts that have shaped the Khandan Initiative (an antiracist…

Describes the way in which six major private organizations in South Carolina were instrumental in setting up three major welfare programs and in establishing a new state office of child advocacy. (GO)

This paper reports on research addressed to the attitudes and feelings of birth parents years after they relinquished babies for adoption. It discusses reasons for relinquishment, parental fantasies about the child, parental interest in reunion with the child, and parental feelings about opening the sealed records. Advocates reunion and research.…

To assist agencies concerned with converting foster homes into adoptive homes, the authors report pertinent findings gleaned from the research and practice literature. (Author)