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Peer reviewedKramer, Laurie; Houston, Doris – Child Welfare, 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…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Adoptive Parents, Community Support
