National Association of State Adoption Programs

The purpose of the National Association of State Adoption Programs is to provide a forum in which State Adoption Program Managers can pool their expertise and to promote networking activities as an association with other direct child welfare entities and individual professionals so that each state can develop and maintain an efficient, state-of-the-art adoption program.

NASAP MEMBERSHIP
NASAP charges no membership fee. All State Adoption Program Managers are considered NASAP members and their active participation is strongly encouraged.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The association is guided by an Executive Committee (EC) which is elected at the annual meeting. Members include a president, vice president, treasurer, secretary and four members-at-large. The EC serves two year terms with half elected each year. They hold monthly conference call meetings and meet at the end of each annual meeting.

ANNUAL WORKING MEETING

Since 1998, members of NASAP have held an annual meeting in Washington, D.C.  Members unable to attend the annual working meeting may review the web cast archives of the event, as well as, download meeting information and handouts from each presentation. To view the 2007 Conference Archives, click here.

NASAP will hold its annual Business Meeting for all State Adoption Program Managers on Tuesday, August 4, 2009, during the Children’s Bureau’s 2009 Meeting of Agencies and Courts.  The meeting will take place at the Marriott Crystal Gateway Hotel in Arlington, Virginia.  NASAP members are also welcome to attend the NASAP New Member Orientation, scheduled the evening of Monday, August 3.

For more information about NASAP activities, please contact Ingrid Parks at (248) 443-0306 or iparks@nrcadoption.org.  To register for the 2009 Meeting of Agencies and Courts, “New Strategies for Changing Times,” please visit the registration website:  www.agenciesandcourts.com.

GOALS FOR 2008-2010

1. Increase attendance at the NASAP Annual Working Meeting.
2. Increase opportunities for informal sharing/relationship building among NASAP members.
3. Establish, build, and/or strengthen mutually supportive relationships between NASAP and other child welfare peer organizations such as the National Association of State Foster Care Managers (NASFCM), the Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on Adoption and Medical Assistance (AAICAMA), etc.
4. Assure continuity and progress toward fulfilling stated mission and goals of the Association.
5. Encourage and support collaboration among individual Association members as well as with members of partner child welfare peer associations and other national organizations for the attainment of positive individual child and family, county, state and national outcomes.
6. Achieve full utilization of technical assistance to NASAP by the National Child Welfare Resource Center for Adoption (NCWRCA).