The listings in this section are a compilation of works by our core staff, senior fellows, associate faculty and research interns. It is our hope that this actively expanding collection serves as a meaningful resource to friends and colleagues in the adoption arena, policy makers, and the community at large. Adoption in the United States
Published in May of 2008, Adoption in the United States: A Reference for Families, Professionals, and Students is available from Lyceum Press. Providing useful information about adoptions for each state, this reference text is a suitable resource for graduate-level students, professionals, and parents.
Annual Massachusetts Adoption Survey
This multi-year survey project created a database on the nature and number of both private and public adoptions in Massachusetts. The Office of Foster Care and Adoption Education and Policy staff designed and implemented a survey-based data collection system to gather comprehensive adoption statistics for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The study includes six years of data collection. Updates have been made to the survey in response to changing trends in adoption practices. The current database includes five years of data from more than 50 private agencies and the Department of Children and Families (DCF), formerly the Department of Social Services (DSS).
2005 Agency Survey Issue Briefs
Contact and Communication
Fees
Number of Adoptions
Services Offered
Waiting Times
Massachusetts Adoption from Foster Care: Knowlege and Attitudes Survey
The results of this survey are presented in three policy briefs below:
Diversity and Adoption Recruitment in Massachusetts
Focuses on implications for recruitment of special populations of prospective adoptive families and concludes with recommendations for more targeted recruitment efforts.
Recruitment of Families to Adopt Children from Foster Care
Focuses on implications for recruitment of prospective adoptive families and concludes with recommendations for more targeted recruitment efforts.
Increasing Knowledge About Foster Care Adoption
Focuses on knowledge about foster care adoptions and concludes with recommendations for more targeted recruitment efforts.
Adoption in Massachusetts: Private and Public Agency Placements and Practices
From 1999 through 2004, The Office of Foster Care and Adoption published annual reports about adoption agencies’ adoption placement and practices. Every licensed adoption agency in Massachusetts was asked to review their records to complete a survey about their adoption practices. The surveys were returned to OFCA, where they were examined for completeness, entered into a database, analyzed, and synthesized into a final report, a process that can take several months.