Celebrate National Adoption Month by...encouraging and supporting families who are fostering or adopting from foster care!
Thousands of children each year find themselves in the U.S. foster care system due to abuse and/or neglect and are unable to return to their birth parents. For those unable to return to their birth parent(s), many are adopted by their foster families, relatives, or newly recruited families.
A number of studies have found that many foster children have emotional and behavioral problems. Post-adoptive services play a key role in supporting children and their adoptive families toward health and healing. It is important for communities to support families who adopt children from foster care. In addition to support that agencies provide, adoptive families report that friends, family, and other adoptive parents are instrumental in their family success.
To learn more about the importance of post-adoption services visit this link to an article by the North American Council on Adoptable Children. http://www.nacac.org/adoptalk/postadoptpaper.pdf
