At the heart of adoption is the love that bonds family members. Enhancing adoptions are policies that facilitate openness in adoption, greater protection of children adopted across national boundaries, and promptly finding adoptive families for children in foster care who cannot return to their birth families. Whether public, private, domestic infant, inter-country, or special needs, families formed by adoption would benefit from better access to post-adoption supports to ensure lifelong permanency for children denied it by their birth circumstances.

• Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Amendments of 1980 (P.L. 96-202)
• Adoption & Safe Families Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-89)
• Adoption by LBGTQ Parents 
• Adoption Opportunities
• Adoption Incentives
• Adoption Tax Credit
• Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (P.L. 110-351)
• Intercountry Adoption 
• Title IV-E of the Social Security Act, Adoption Assistance

• Promoting Adoption and Legal Guardianship for Children in Foster Care Act (113^th Congress, H.R. 3205)
• Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-351)

• Responding to Rehoming: Protecting Children & Strengthening Adoptive Families (June 2015)
• Completion of Adoption Incentives Reauthorization Hoped for Spring (Children’s Monitor, 3/25/14)
• CWLA’s Fostering ConnectionsTestimony – House Ways and Means Subcommittee (9/15/2009)

• CWLA Testimony Before the House Subcommittee On Income Security And Family Support (2/27/08)
  • Follow Up Q&A Between CWLA and the House Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, Following CWLA’s Testimony of 2/27
  • Additional Questions on the Invest In KIDS Act, for Jim Purcell (3/3/2008 Request, Chairman McDermott)
• CWLA Testimony Before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the Multiethnic Placement Act: Minority Children in State Foster Care and Adoption (9/21/07)
• CWLA Testimony Submitted to the House Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means for the Hearing to Examine Recent Failure to Protect Child Safety (11/6/03)

• Adoption and Safe Families

  • CWLA Testimony Submitted to the House Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Ways and Means for the Hearing on the Implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (4/8/03)
  • CWLA Comments on Section 203 of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, Child Welfare Outcome Measures (3/4/99)
  • CWLA Comments on the Impact of the Adoption and Safe Families Act on Adjudicated Juvenile Delinquents (1/6/99)
  • CWLA Comments on the HHS Proposed Regulations to Implement the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (12/17/98)
  • CWLA Testimony to Senate Finance Committee for Hearing on the PASS Act, S. 1195 (10/08/97)

• Intercountry Adoption

  • CWLA Testimony Submitted to the House International Relations Committee for the Hearing on the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption (10/20/99)
  • CWLA Testimony Submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the Hearing on the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption (10/5/99)