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Analysis of State Legislation Enacted in Response to the Adoption and Safe Families Act, National Conference of State Legislatures
Adoption Dynamics: An Update on The Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, Fred H. Wulczyn, Kristen Brunner Hislop, Lijun Chen, Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago (2005)
This paper analyzes adoptions from foster care using data from Chapin Hall’s Multistate Foster Care Data Archive to understand what effect, if any, the federal law has had on the proportion of children admitted to foster care that were later adopted and on the time needed to complete those adoption.
Parental Substance Abuse , Child Protection and ASFA: Implications for Policy Makers and Practitioners, American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law Research by Smith Associates, Inc., Barbara E. Smith, Sharon G. Elstein, Eva J. Klain (2005)
GAO Report on ASFA (2002)
This June 2002 report from the U.S. General Accounting Office gives a comprehensive overview of ASFA and concludes that while the annual number of adoptions has increased by 57 percent since it was enacted, "changes in other foster care outcomes and the characteristics of children in foster care cannot be identified due to the lack of comparable pre- and post-ASFA data."
Making it Permanent: Reasonable Efforts to Finalize Permanency Plans for Foster Children,
Cecilia Fiermonte and Jennifer L. Renne, with a Foreword by the Honorable Leonard P. Edwards, ABA Center on Children and the Law (2002)
Making Sense of the ASFA (Adoption and Safe Families Act) Regulations: A Roadmap for Effective Implementation, ABA Center on Children and the Law (2001)
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