Postadoption Services: A Factsheet for Families

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Publication Year: 2006
Language: English
Website: http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/f_postadoption.cfm

It is common for adoptive families to need support and services after adoption. Postadoption services can help families with a wide range of issues. They are available for everything from learning how to explain adoption to a preschooler, to helping a child who experienced early childhood abuse, to helping with an adopted teen's search for identity. Experience with adoptive families has shown that all family members can benefit from some type of postadoption support. Families of children who have experienced trauma, neglect, or institutionalization may require more intensive services.

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Source

Child Welfare Information Gateway, ACYF, ACF, HHS
Children's Bureau/ACYF, 1250 Maryland Avenue, SW, Eighth Floor
Washington DC 20024

Phone: (703) 225-2331 EN/SP
Toll-free Phone: (800) 394-3366 EN/SP