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Postadoption Services: Resources for Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Adopted People

Resources for triad members on types of postadoption services, finding local postadoption services, and parenting resources for adoptive families.

Information Gateway website sections that provide information and resources on:

• Types of postadoption services
• Locating postadoption resources in your community
• Parenting resources for adoptive families

Types of postadoption services

Resources on various types of postadoption services for adoptive and kinship families, grouped by major sections on the Information Gateway website, including counseling, support groups, respite and child care, openness and maintaining connections or searching for birth relatives, attachment therapy, and resources specific to children with disabilities and health concerns.

Adoption

• Counseling, support groups, and respite care
• Openness
• Maintaining connections
• Searching for birth relatives

Systemwide

• Respite services for resource families (kin, foster, and adoptive)
• Postpermanency services for children with disabilities
• Resources for grandparents of children with disabilities
• Health services

Achieving & Maintaining Permanency

• Postpermanency services

Out-of-Home Care

• Support services for relative/kinship caregivers

Supporting & Preserving Families

• Child care and respite care services
• Intensive family preservation services

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Locating postadoption resources in your community

Resources, grouped by major sections on the Information Gateway website, for locating quality postadoption services, including links to searchable databases such as the National Foster Care & Adoption Directory and the Adoption Assistance by State search, vital records information access for each State, and respite and health services locators. Additional resources point to training for families and information on accessing college scholarships and tuition waivers.

Adoption

• National Foster Care & Adoption Directory
• Adoption assistance by State
• Training
• Developmental and physical disabilities
• College scholarships and tuition waivers
• Obtaining birth and/or adoption records

Systemwide

• Types of child care: Respite/crisis care
• Health services locators

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Parenting resources for adoptive families

Resources, grouped by major sections on the Information Gateway website, to assist adoptive families help their children transition from foster care to adoption, understand potential challenges, parent their children from birth to adulthood, and understand the lifelong impact of adoption.

Adoption

• Transition and postplacement support
• Parenting your child from birth to adulthood
• Understanding potential challenges
• Lifelong impact of adoption
• Celebrating National Adoption Month: Resources for teachers

Systemwide

• Specific disabilities or conditions

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Selected Resources Postadoption Services: A Factsheet for Families Child Welfare Information Gateway (2006) Explains the range of postadoption services available to families. (PDF - 285 KB) Selecting and Working With an Adoption Therapist Child Welfare Information Gateway (2005) Practical advice for families on selecting and working with a mental health service provider to address adoption issues. (PDF - 281 KB) Helping Your Foster Child Transition to Your Adopted Child Child Welfare Information Gateway (2005) Describes specific things families can say and do to help foster children make the transition. (PDF - 257 KB) Impact of Adoption on Adopted Persons Child Welfare Information Gateway (2004) Examines the impact of adoption on adopted persons who have reached adulthood. (PDF - 260 KB) Impact of Adoption on Birth Parents Child Welfare Information Gateway (2004) Discusses some of the emotional issues that parents face after making the decision to place an infant for adoption and in handling the feelings that are often present afterwards. (PDF – 291 KB)

Updated on September 18, 2008