Resources if you are planning to parent
- 2-1-1 Help in locating community assistance (food, utilities, housing, child care, etc.)
- Child care assistance
- Child support
- Churches in your area
- Domestic violence assistance
- Food assistance through WIC (The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children)
- Head Start
- Housing assistance through HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development)
- Medicaid
- State Children's Health Insurance Programs
- TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families)
Adoption Tax Credit for Special Needs Adoptions Finalized between 2003 and 2009
Most families that adopted foster children who receive adoption assistance between 2005 and 2009, and a few who adopted earlier, should be able to take advantage of the federal adoption tax credit, even if they had no expenses related to the adoption. A new law and guidance have now made the tax credit refundable for the first time. [For non-special needs adoptions (except step-parent adoptions, which do not qualify for the credit), parents can claim the credit with the same rules, except that they have to document qualified adoption expenses.] Click here for more information.
