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Adoption Efforts at the Texas Dept. of Family and Protective Services: Testimony on Increasing Adoptions

  

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Scott McCown /(512) 320-0222 x 109

March 18, 2004

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We applaud the Speaker for his interim charge to this committee to study "ways to increase the adoption of special-needs children through efficiency in the Adoption Assistance Program." Increasing adoptions of special-needs children is of course a subset of a larger question: How do we increase adoptions? But special-needs children do present special challenges.