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DSS director outlines Special Children Adoption Incentive Fund; county asked to consider participation
Summary
Social services staff described the Special Children Adoption incentive program and its financial terms, and foster parents and a guardian ad litem urged the board to opt in to reduce barriers to adopting children with special needs.
Social services staff described the Special Children Adoption (SCA) incentive program Feb. 3 and invited the Alexander County Board of Commissioners to consider opting in to allow payments to adoptive families for children with exceptional care needs.
Carrie Gerald, director of the Alexander County Department of Social Services, told the board that the program provides additional payments to families adopting children who meet a state'defined list of special-needs criteria. "The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services makes monthly payments of SCA funding to eligible families who complete adoption of qualifying children and…
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