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A Guide to The Multiethnic Placement Act of
1994
As Amended by the Interethnic Adoption Provisions of 1996
Acknowledgments
The author, Joan Heifetz Hollinger, is Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley where she teaches courses in Family Law, including seminars on child abuse, neglect, adoption, and foster care. She is the Reporter for the Uniform Adoption Act approved by the Conference on Uniform Laws in 1994 and by the American Bar Association in 1995, the editor and principal author of ADOPTION LAW AND PRACTICE (1988-98), and a member of the U.S. DHHS Work Group to Draft Guidelines for State Legislation to Achieve Permanency for Children.
The author would like to thank the following:
Alice Bussiere, for writing the original version of this monograph and for many discussions about the scope and implications of the Multiethnic Placement Act.
Mark Hardin and Debra Ratterman Baker of the ABA Center on Children and the Law for initiating this project and Mark Hardin for editing the monograph.
Sujung Kim, Regina Deihl, and Deanna Peters for research assistance.
Judith Anderson, Rick Barth, Sarah Berman, Wilfred Hamm, Ritch Hemstreet, Marcia Henry, Carolyn Johnson, Jackie Kidd, Leora Neal, Pat Montgomery, Liz Oppenheim, Glendora Patterson, Susan Shalhoub, Ken Watson, and Kristen Weber for their suggestions and questions.
The Stuart Foundation, the North American Council on Adoptable Children, the California Department of Foster Care and Adoption Recruitment and Licensing, and the Association of Administrators for the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance for their conferences where many of the issues and questions raised by MEPA-IEP were discussed.
The ChildrenÂ’s Bureau staff for their guidance, comments and corrections: Mike Amborse, Cecelia Sudia and Sharon Rothman-King.
Special thanks go to Miriam Laver, Sally Small Inada and Steve OÂ’Reilly of the ABA Center on Children and the Law for their special help in pulling together all the changes on short notice to produce this monograph.
