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NACAC
North American
Council on Adoptable Children
www.nacac.org
Since it's
founding in 1974 by adoptive parents the organization mission has remained
essentially unchanged
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child has the right to a permanent home. The Council advocates
the right of every child to a permanent, continuous, nurturing
and culturally sensitive family, and presses for the legal adoptive
placement of any child denied that right. |
Education
- Hosts the most comprehensive adoption training
conference in North America
- Informs parents, child welfare professionals and
other child advocates about foster care & adoption
- Shares effective ideas for recruiting and retaining
adoptive parents with adoption professionals and parent leaders.
- Conducts training sessions about adoption subsidy,
transracial parenting, child welfare reform and other issues.
- Sponsors campaigns to raise awareness about adoption
Parent Support
- Develops and empowers hundreds of adoptive, foster
and kinship parent groups by providing leadership training and support
services
- Helps agencies to develop post-adoption services
for families by providing information and model programs
- Distributes resources that help foster and adoptive
parents determine whether to parent a child of another race.
- Creates and disseminates publications that provide
resources, information, and support to adoptive families
- Provides phone consultation to parents about adoption
subsidy issues.
Research
- Maintains and distributes up-to-date information
on each state's adoption subsidy program.
- Identifies programs & policies to help children
find permanent families
- Analyses child welfare issues, such as concurrent
planning and the difficulties families of color encounter in the child
welfare system.
Advocacy
- Consults with policy makers child welfare administrators,
and legal professionals about ways to improve the foster care and adoption
systems.
- Supports parent groups and other community leaders
in their efforts to advocate for waiting children and adoptive families.
- Encourages positive media coverage about waiting
children & adoption
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