Adoption And Foster Care Clinic

Pre-Adoption Review Program A crucial piece to adoption and foster success is careful and strategic matching of parents with non-biological children. Our goal is that all parents entering this dynamic be as informed as possible. The parents need to know and understand their capacity to care for a child that may have some extensive needs. Our Pre-AdoptionFostering file review program offers one on one consultations. A special needs checklist review helps parents to understand the general medical terms and care sequala of various diagnosis prior to the match process. This empowers the parent to make wise decisions on which needs they are best equipped to meet. A pre-adoption file review is comprehensive medical review of a specific childs file with the prospective parents. Everything from medical documentation, photos, videos and social services reports are reviewed with parents. The potential known long term needs are discussed so that - continued on Schedule O

CounselingMental Health Program The organization is staffed with two licensed social workers. Both are adoptees (one internationally and the other foster to adopt). They have unique insight into the childs experience. Both are trained in multiple therapy modalities. They provide comprehensive family child evaluations as well as ongoing therapy for children, teens, adults and parents. Mental health is not a one and done process. It requires multiple visits, strongsafe trustworthy relationships, safe environments and a tremendous amount of trauma education. Our families receive ongoing support from these gifted counselors throughout their journey. This program averages over 500 visits annually. The program is offered fee for service as well as grantdonor funding support.