Post
Adoption Support & Preservation Services
Post
Adoption Support & Preservation Services
"Families who have come together through adoption need to be understood, encouraged and supported as they are empowered to fulfill their roles as the single most therapeutic influence in the life of their children over time." Casey Family Services
" I used to be naive. I thought I could take children who had been seriously hurt and give them unlimited love and fix them. I've learned that we can't fix them. All that we can do is give them love and support and fight for them to get the services they need. We can't protect them from what's already happened to them." Adoptive Mother
" Our whole family had become dysfunctional. Our marriage was coming apart. We did not know how to cope with our daughter. No one had ever told us about any of what she was going through. We had this fantasy that adoption was the same as forming a family biologically. We were not prepared to help our children, especially our daughter, with the grieving process, the guilt, the anger." Adoptive Parent
New York State Awards $2.7 Million in
2006 Post Adoption Services Grants
NYSCCC Position Statement on Needed Services and
Eligibility Timeframes for Post Adoption Services
NYS CCC Calls for $6 million to Develop Statewide Post Adoption Services
Why are Post Adoption Services Needed in NYS?
NYS Regulations Pertaining to Post Adoption Services
Adoptive Families are Different
Post Adoption Services Work in Many Ways: A Top Ten List
A Foster/Adoptive Parent Speaks About Post Adoption Services
Making Adoption Work for Children and Families
The Use of Family Preservation Services with Post-Adoptive Families
A Study from the National Family Preservation Network, June 2005
Children's Services Practice Notes: Supporting Adoptive Families
from The North Carolina Div. of Social Services and the Family and Children's Resource Program
Includes "Assessing Post Adoption Services and Support in Your Agency"
News on Post Adoption Services from the Nat. Resource Center. for
Special Needs Adoption
Special Fall, 2004 Issue of "The Roundtable," Spaulding for Children
Inc. Newsletter
Adoptive Families and Professionals: When the Experts Make Things Worse
Assessing The Field Of Post-Adoption Services:
Family Needs, Program Models And Evaluation Issues
Link to the US Dept. Of Health and Human Services
Post
Adoption Services: Issues for Legislators,
11/02
Link to the National Conference of State Legislatures
Respite
Services for Families Who Adopt Children with Special
Needs
Link to the National Child Welfare Information Gateway
Strengthening Families and Communities
The Casey Center for Family Centered Practice
white papers that highlight key aspects of post-adoption services needs.
11/28/2007