Adoption and Permanency Planning
Adoption is the social, emotional, and legal process in which children who will not be raised by their birth parents become full and permanent legal members of another family while maintaining genetic and psychological connections to their birth family. Adoption has many facets and touches people in different ways—depending on their role and perspective.
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Self Help Birth Record Search- How Native American adoptees can get their birth records in California.
This birth records self-help kit is from the California Indian Legal Services Community Education Self-Help Series. Disclaimer: This information is intended to assist you with your legal problem. Each area of the law is complex and changing. Your case may have special factors that could affect the applicability of this information. CILS does not guarantee that this information is sufficient to resolve your legal problem. If you have questions, you should seek the advice and counsel of an attorney.
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Implementing the Fostering Connections Act: How the Children's Bureau National Resource Centers and Implementation Centers Can Help States and Tribes
The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (PL 110-351) was signed into law on October 7, 2008. The new law amended parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, permit Indian Tribes to operate totle IV-E programs, improve incentives for adoption and achieve other pourposes.
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Fostering Connections Legislation Public Law 110-351
An Act - To ammend parts B and E of title IV of the Social Security Act to connect and support relative caregivers, improve outcomes for children in foster care, provide for tribal foster care and adoption access, improve incentives for adoption, and for other purposes.
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Guidance on Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008
The purpose of this Children's Bureau Program Instruction (PI) is to provide title IV-E agencies comprehensive information on the provisions of titles IV-B and IV-E as a result of the amendments made by the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008, P.L. 110-351.