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- AdoptUSKids, a project of the U.S. Children's Bureau to raise awareness about the need for foster and adoptive families and to support states, territories, and tribes in efforts to find families for children in foster care. AdoptUSKids hosts a national photo-listing of waiting children, and the National Resource Center for Diligent Recruitment.
- Annie E. Casey Foundation, a private foundation that works to support the needs of vulnerable children and families and includes the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, which focuses on permanency for older youth and adolescent brain development.
- Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance (AAICAMA), facilitates administration of ICAMA to support adoptions that cross state lines. See AAICAMA's webpages on guardianship assistance, Medicaid, and adoption assistance.
- Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children helps ensure that all states conform to procedures designed to promote the best interest of children who are sent to or received from one state to another for adoption.
- The Benefits Information Portal (BiP), from the Minnesota Department of Human Services, works to help more than 4,500 Minnesota families grow strong through adoption and kinship care.
- Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare at the University of Minnesota
- Child Welfare Information Gateway, a website of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that provides information and resources on a variety of topics in child welfare, including adoption, kinship care, and permanency
- Child Welfare League of America, a coalition of private and public agencies serving vulnerable children and families.
- Foster Adopt Minnesota, contracted by the Minnesota Department of Human Services to provide services and supports to preadoptive, adoptive, and kinship families, and to support adoption recruitment efforts for Minnesota's waiting children. This includes hosting the State Adoption Exchange.
- North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC), contracted by the Minnesota Department of Human Services to provide services and supports to preadoptive, adoptive, and kinship families. NACAC also provides advocacy, education and training, and leadership development.
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