Project Description

Authors: Annette Semanchin Jones, MSW & Traci LaLiberte, PhD
Date: May  17, 2010

This report is the product of a collaboration between Hennepin County and the University of Minnesota, known as the Hennepin-University Partnership, or HUP. It is a comprehensive literature review, annotated bibliography, and promising and emerging practice guide on preventing adoption disruption and dissolutions.

“Adoption disruption” is used to denote a placement disruption before legal finalization of the adoption.

“Adoption dissolution” is defined as the legal process of dissolving or ending an adoption, which occurs after the adoption was legally finalized.

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Other HUP Resources

  1. re-entry to foster care (completed in February 2010; view)
  2. systems of care working with long-term foster care youth transitioning to adulthood (completed in July 2010; view)