Adoption Services help children whose birth parents cannot care for them to become part of a new family. County departments of social services and private child-placing agencies provide these services, including:
- Recruiting, assessing and selecting adoptive homes.
- Casework services for adoptive families to help sustain the placement.
- Help finalizing the legal adoption.
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Post-adoption services.
These services benefit children in the foster care system and the families who adopt them.
Services are provided by departments of social services and through partnership between public and private agencies that include recruitment, assessment and selection of adoptive homes; casework services to adoptive families to support and sustain the placement and facilitate the finalization of the adoption. After the adoption has been completed, agencies receive payments for placements exceeding an established baseline.