Post-Adoption
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Post-Adoption Services

Post-placement support is critical to achieving the goal of finding permanent, stable, loving families for children, as well as maintaining those families who have already adopted. Parents need information that will strengthen their families, and enable them to handle the challenges of adoptive parenting.

Unfortunately, these challenges are all too common. Children adopted from the foster care system—as well as many children adopted privately or internationally—face a daunting variety of physical and emotional special needs: depression and anxiety, mental illness, sexual acting out, fetal alcohol syndrome or effect, attention deficit disorder, central auditory processing disorder, emotional disabilities, attachment disorder, learning disabilities, mental retardation, orthopedic impairments, speech and language impairments, AIDS or HIV, and other severe physical disabilities.

In this section, you will find information on:

• articles explaining many resources for adoptive families
• a model array of post-adoption services, plus articles on post-adoption service models
• transracial parenting, including NACAC's publications and a series of articles
• Community Champions Network, NACAC's initiative to help eight communities improve their access to post-adoption services
• answers to frequently asked questions about post-adoption support and services

Visit the Child Welfare Information Gateway for a post-adoption services provided in your state.

Click here for more information about the U.S. tax credit for adoptive families.