Transcript Welcome Grandparents, Family Members and Friends!

Best Practices and Adjustment
of Special Needs Children
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
WACAP (World Association For Children and
Parents)
1978 started program in India
Specializes in adoptions of older children and
children with special needs
Mary Moo
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
Children
Who
Wait
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
FAMILY
RECRUITEMENT
OUTREACH
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WHAT IS NEEDED
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As much information as possible and photos are pivotal
CONCERNS ABOUT PHOTOS
• Did you know?
Country
Total #
Likely % waiting
adoptions to US child
Country allow
specific child
recruitment
China
2,697
50 – 60%
yes
Russia
748
2–5%
no
India (old
system)
159
75%*
yes
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
FAMILY
RECRUITEMENT
OUTREACH (CONTINUED)
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WHO?
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GENERAL ADOPTION COMMUNITY
SPECIALIZED GROUPS
INDIVIDUAL
INITIAL SCREENING
• Do they meet country requirements (flexibility helps)
COST
• REDUCED FEES
• PRIVATE GRANT ORGANIZATIONS
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
HOMESTUDY, PARENTING RESOURCE
PLAN & TRAINING
• Homestudy
• Parenting Resource Plan
• Training
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
Parenting Resource Plan
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Consult with medical professionals and describe how many clinic/doctor/therapy visits children with this disability typically
need each month. How many surgeries? What is the length of stay in the hospital and recuperation time at home?
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Please describe how you will meet the time demands of your child’s possible medical care, including how you will get time
off from work. How much support is available from your spouse, extended family members and friends? Please be as
specific as possible, identifying by name those available to you for support.
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A history of sexual abuse or molestation is often unknown at the time of placement. Even children in institutions can
experience this. Describe your understanding of the major effects of sexual molestation on a developing child.
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Explain why every older child placed in adoption has attachment difficulties?
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How will you parent a child who may:
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Have several hour-long tantrums each day?
Be physically or sexually aggressive to others, including your other children and pets?
Show no desire to be part of your family and want to return to previous caregivers even after six to 12 months
in your home?
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
Training
• www.adoptionlearningpartners.org/
• University of Chicago Adoption Center http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTaEAmFcTxY&
list=UUpLkJTK4tlEy7_xGRIHlySQ&index=1.
• Private agency on-line or in-person trainings
• Older child support groups and on-line forums
• Networking with other parents who have adopted
children with similar issues
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
http://www.adoptioninstitute.org/index.php
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
Other Efforts
Contact and promoting continued education
Referral “Check-in”
Travel preparation conversation
In country travel support
Post placement visits
Continuing contact with family after placement (not
just post-placement reports)
• Reminding families to keep in touch
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WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
• E-mail me at [email protected] for the
parenting resource plan
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
WACAP delivers.
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org
WACAP
delivers.
WACAP
Reliable, personal adoption services to bring a child into your family.
www.wacap.org
800.732.1887 • www.wacap.org