What is the Child Watch Visitation Program?

PRE-TOUR ADOPTION SURVEYThis survey is intended to give the Adoption Tour Project an idea ojthe opinions andexperiences ojnew tour panicipants. We thank you for your panicipation in this project andyour help with our survey.Please answer T (true/agree), I (false/disagree), or U (undecided, unknown).I do not have a great deal of information about foster care and adoption issues, such assubsidy or respite care.~ consider myself an advocate for children and informed about foster care and adoptionIssues.I am a business person and have considered involving employees or associates inadoption related activities.I am a legislator/government official and feel that an increase in services for foster andadoptive children with special needs is a cost effective investment by government.I am a legislator/government official and have actively supported an increase in theadoption subsidy in North Carolina.Foster families are employees of the state.Children \\'ithout families who are injosler care wait 2-4 years for a new permanenthome.Foster families are the most likely resources for adoption of waiting children withspecial needs (fostered in their homes).There is appropriate representation of minority families available for foster care andadoption.Providing a financial subsidy of around $300 per month for families adopting childrenwith special needs would probably be too expensive a plan to implement.It costs the state more to keep a child in foster care than to place a child for adoptionwith financial assistance.Foster and adoptive families currently get sufficient financial and other supports toadequately parent a child with special needs.Foster parents are community activists who receive minimal compensation to coverchild caring expenses.More children would be adopted if tinancial assistance for adoption were to improve.Group care such as orphanages and children I s homes are more cost-effective than fosterfamily care for a special needs child.77