Birth Parent Assistance Act of 2009

Summary

Birth Parent Assistance Act of 2009 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide certain services for birth parents who have placed a child for adoption, either directly or by grant to or contract with state or local governmental entities or public or private agencies or organizations, including licensed child welfare or adoption agencies or adoptive family groups and faith-based organizations. Specifies such services for birth parents as: (1) post-legal adoption services; (2) individual, group, and family counseling; and (3) training of mental health professionals, social workers, and staff at hospitals and other appropriate birth care facilities relating to their interaction with birth parents and adoptive families.

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN · 12 March 2009

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  Introduced in House · EN · 12 March 2009

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 12 March 2009

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