PUBLIC LAW 100-294—APR. 25, 1988
102 STAT. 123
"(ii) recruitment of prospective adoptive families for such children; "(iii) expediting, where appropriate, the legal availability of such children; "(iv) expediting, where appropriate, the agency assessment of prospective adoptive families identified for such children; "(v) formation of prospective adoptive family support groups; "(vi) training of personnel of— "(I) public agencies; "(II) private nonprofit child welfare and adoption agencies that are licensed by the State; and "(III) adoptive parents organizations and community-based organizations with experience in working with minority populations; "(vii) use of volunteers and adoptive parent groups; and "(viii) any other activities determined by the Secretary to further the purposes of this Act; and "(B) shall be subject to the condition that such grants or contracts may be renewed if documentation is provided to the Secretary demonstrating that appropriate and sufficient placements of such children have occurred during the previous funding period.". (b) POST LEGAL ADOPTION SERVICES.—Section 203 is amended by adding the following new subsection: "(c)(1) The Secretary shall provide (directly or by grant to or contract with States, local government entities, public or private nonprofit licensed child welfare or adoption agencies or adoptive family groups) for the provision of post legal adoption services for families who have adopted special needs children. "(2) Services provided under grants made under this subsection shall supplement, not supplant, services from any other funds available for the same general purposes, including— "(A) individual counseling; "(B) group counseling; "(C) family counseling; "(D) case management; "(E) training public agency adoption personnel, personnel of private, nonprofit child welfare and adoption agencies licensed by the State to provide adoption services, mental health services professionals, and other support personnel to provide services under this subsection; "(F) assistance to adoptive parent organizations; and "(G) assistance to support groups for adoptive parents, adopted children, and siblings of adopted children. (c) PLACEMENT OF FOSTER CARE CHILDREN.—Section 203, as amended by subsection (b), is amended by adding the following new subsection: "(d)(1) The Secretary shall make grants for improving State efforts to increase the placement of foster care children legally free for adoption, according to a pre-established plan and goals for improvement. Grants funded by this section must include a strong evaluation component which outlines the innovations use4 to improve the placement of special needs children who are legally free for adoption, and the successes and failures of the initiative. The
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