TPR
Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) is a court process which permanently ends all legal parental rights of a birthparent to a child. Termination of parental rights can be voluntary or involuntary.

TSS worker
Therapeutic Staff Support worker, or Teacher Support Services worker. A mental health worker who provides direct, one-to-one interventions to a child or adolescent at home, school, day care, or other community-based program or community setting, when the child's behavior, without this intervention, would require a more restrictive setting.

tax credit
A tax credit is an amount that you subtract from your total tax liability. Federal legislation has provided for tax credits for all adoptive families.

Termination of Parental Rights (TPR)
Termination of Parental Rights (TPR) is a court process which permanently ends all legal parental rights of a birthparent to a child. Termination of parental rights can be voluntary or involuntary.

therapeutic foster home
A foster home in which the foster parents have received special training to prepare them to care for a wide variety of children and adolescents, usually those with significant emotional or behavioral problems. Foster parents in a therapeutic foster home continue to receive more supervision and assistance from their agency than other foster parents.

Title IV-E
The Title IV-E section of Public Law 96-272, The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980

Title XX
Title XX of the Social Security Act

total care
A child requiring total care is one who needs assistance with all daily routines, including personal hygiene, dressing and undressing, feeding, and mobility.

traditional adoption
A closed adoption, also called a traditional adoption, is an adoption in which no identifying information about the birthfamily or the adoptive family is shared, and there is no contact between birthparents and adoptive parents. The adoptive family usually receives non-identifying information about the child and the birthfamily before placement. In a closed adoption, after finalization, the records are sealed and typically are not available to the adopted child.

transportation
In adoption, transportation, or travel refers to arrangements for a prospective adoptive family to meet a child or children they plan to adopt who may live some distance away, through visits. It also refers to the travel needed when the actual placement occurs. When transportation is provided, the child's agency will pay most or all of the travel costs. When it is not, the adoptive family is expected to cover these expenses.

transcultural adoption
Adoption of a child or adolescent of one culture by an adoptive family of another culture. For example, a family of Mexican American heritage might adopt a child of Puerto Rican heritage. Most transracial adoptions are also transcultural.

transracial adoption
Adoption of a child or adolescent of one race by an adoptive family of a different race.

travel
In adoption, transportation, or travel refers to arrangements for a prospective adoptive family to meet a child or children they plan to adopt who may live some distance away, through visits. It also refers to the travel needed when the actual placement occurs. When transportation is provided, the child's agency will pay most or all of the travel costs. When it is not, the adoptive family is expected to cover these expenses.

triad
The three major people in an adoption: birthparent, adoptive parent, and adopted child or adult. The term "adoption triad" has generally replaced the less positive "adoption triangle." "Adoption circle" may also be used.