Florida's Adoption Information Guide

The Adoption Information Center serves as a clearinghouse in every area of adoption by providing adoption information and referral services to adoptive parents, adult adoptee, birth relatives, pregnant woman and other adoption and foster care professionals, seeking answers to question about adoption.

Our statewide services now include a Specialized Adoption Lending Library. The Resource Library provides FREE curricula and adoption related resource materials on a LOANED basis, to support groups, agencies and professionals that provide adoption and foster care services.

Our goal is to keep you informed and assist you in doing your job even better.

If you would like to be added to our Mailing List please contact us.

Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 9 PM

Call: Toll Free: 1-800-96-ADOPT

E-mail: adoptionlibrary@danielkids.org

Fax: 1-904-353-3472

Write: Florida's Adoption Information Center

Resource Library

4203 Southpoint Boulevard

Jacksonville, Florida, 32216

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Who Can Borrow

Check Outs Can Be Facilitated By:

· Adoption Agencies

· Adoption Attorneys

· Adoption/Foster Care Support Groups

· Community Based Care Agencies

· Department of Children and Families

· Family Planning/Crisis Pregnancy Centers

· Guardian Ad Litem Programs

· Hospitals

· Libraries

· Maternity Homes

· Mental Health Professionals

· Schools and Colleges

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How To Request Items

· Identify the items that you would like to borrow from the Catalog:

o Request a Catalog by Mail

· Contact Florida's Adoption Information Center.

o Call 1-800-96-ADOPT

o Email adoptionlibrary@danielkids.org

o Fax 1-904-353-3472

o Write Florida's Adoption Information Center

Resource Library

4203 Southpoint Boulevard

Jacksonville, Florida 32216

· We will pay to ship the item(s) to your door.

· The items are available for a 4-week loan period.

· You will pay to ship the items back to the Library.

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Subjects Included In The Collection

· Adoption Disruption & Dissolution - predicting, preventing, managing, legal issues

· Adoption Finalization - ceremonies and rituals, legal aspects, name changes

· Adoption Professionals - ethics, role, mission

· Adoption Support Programs - maintenance and medical subsidies, Medicaid, tax benefits, FMLA, non-recurring expenses, college tuition waiver

· Adoptive Parent Issues - fertility resolution

· Attachment - disorders, parenting techniques to foster

· Child Specific Recruitment - tips on photography, writing child biographies

· Child Welfare Impact on Adoption - history, heroes, milestones

· Community Response - engaging corporate community, general inquires, child specific inquires, use of volunteers

· Critical Adoption Legislation - MEPA, ICWA, ASFA, ICPC, ICAMA

· Daily Parenting - child development, sibling rivalry, positive parenting

· Different Types of Adoption - independent, international, special needs

· Disclosure - legal issues, child and family issues

· Effects of In-utero Exposure - parenting techniques, alcohol, tobacco, drugs, domestic violence, stress, lack of pre-natal care

· Emotional and Mental Illness - disorders, parenting techniques to foster

· Emotions of Adoption - grief, loss, healing

· Expanding Public Thinking - older child adoption, adult adoption, disabled children, large family

· Foster Parent Adoption - unique needs and benefits

· Importance of Background History - medical, genetic, placement, child engagement

· Matching & Linking Families & Children - long distance placement, child engagement

· Media and Adoption Event Planning - understanding the media, waiting child article, public service announcements

· Openness in Adoption - history, advocacy, legal

· Post Adoption - support and assistance

· Relative Adoption - stepparent, kinship, unique needs and benefits

· Respite - formal, informal

· Search and Reunion - legal, emotional

· Specialized Parenting Needs - sexual safety, behavior modification, Anger

· Worker Practice and Skill Training - understanding abuse and neglect, family assessment, child assessment, linking, placement dynamics

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Library Policies

· At this time, only residents of Florida are able to check out items from the Lending Library.

Check-outs can be facilitated by

o Adoption Agencies

o Adoption Attorneys

o Adoption/Foster Care Support Groups

o Community Based Care Agencies

o Department of Children and Families

o Family Planning/Crisis Pregnancy Centers

o Guardian Ad Litem Programs

o Hospitals

o Libraries

o Maternity Homes

o Mental Health Professionals

o Schools and Colleges

· Identify the items that you would like borrow from the Catalog.

o Request a Catalog by Mail

· Contact Florida’s Adoption Information Center

o CALL 1-800-96-ADOPT

o FAX 1-904-353-3472

o E-MAIL adoptionlibrary@danielkids.org

o Write Florida's Adoption Information Center

Resource Library

4203 Southpoint Boulevard

Jacksonville, Florida 32216

We will pay to ship the items to your door.
The items are available for a 4-week loan period. If you need an extension please call to make arrangements.

· Retain all packaging for the return of items borrowed. Be sure to affix the return label provided.

· You will pay to ship the items back to the Library.

· When returning items be sure to include all guides, cases and workbooks that were provided.

· Materials should be returned in the same condition you received them.

· When borrowing items from the Library you agree to be financially responsible for all materials that are lost, damaged or mutilated.

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Donations

The Library welcomes and appreciates your tax deductible donation of both new and pre-owned materials. All materials must meet the same standards that our purchased items do. Inclusion in the Library is subject to both content and the Library Coordinator's discretion.

If you have resource materials that you would like to donate, please contact the Library Staff or drop off your donations at the Library directly.

Florida's Adoption Information Center

Resource Library

4203 Southpoint Boulevard

Jacksonville, Florida 32216

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