SERVICES AVAILABLE TO ADOPTIVE PARENTS

1. Preplacement assessments of couples and/or single parents who are interested in:


1. Adopting a child or sibling group including Independent Placements
2. Foster/adoption placements
3. Legal risk adoption placements
4. Step-parent adoptions
5. Relative adoptions


2. Services to Adoptive Children Who Are Between the Ages of Zero (including unborn babies) to Eighteen Years Old
   
   
1. Preparation of children for adoption
2. Completing Lifebooks/life histories
3. Circulating child's profile to recruit families and to aid in selection of a family
4. Follow-up sustaining and supportive services until the decree of adoption is issued
   
   
3. Post Adoption Services and Family Sustaining/Support Group
   
   
4. Ongoing Support & Supervision of Adoptive Placements
   
   
5. Services to Adoptee Searchers
   
   
6. Ongoing Recruitment of Foster and Adoptive Families and Preparation Training
   
   
7. FAMILY FOSTER HOME LICENSURE for Legal Risk and Foster/Adopt Families:
   
   
   1. Placement Services for children into family foster care
   2. Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting/Group Preparation and Selection (MAPP/GPS) Training, study and licensure of home
   3. Ongoing support and supervision
   4. Support Group for foster parents
   5. Ongoing recruitment and training
      
      
   All foster home licensure must meet state standards and requirements.

   Families using Family Builders of Catawba Valley services are required to complete twelve weeks (36 hours) of training for the role as a resource family in fostering or adopting the children needing homes. This training also prepares resource families to be full partners with the agency in decision making about the type of resource family they will become and the type of child(ren) they may adopt. Family Foster Home Licensure and supervision is provided to resource families requiring these services.

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