Seems like adoptive parents can really be in charge of making themselves available to a child that is truly
in need of an adoptive family — not situations where the jury is still out as it were.
With rigorous research and a strong evidence - base, we can better identify
the needs of adoptive families and work more effectively to support our members.
Notwithstanding this fact, too many children in foster care are in
need of adoptive families.
Respite as a Support Service for Adoptive Families (PDF - 44 KB) ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center & Chapel Hill Training - Outreach Project (1994) Provides strategies for addressing
the needs of adoptive families using respite services and their children as well as the providers serving those families.
The Home offers an array of support services to meet
the needs of adoptive families and birth families throughout their lives.
AFSN will continue responding to
the needs of adoptive families by providing links to the experts and other adoptive families.
In England, the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) introduced in 2015 went some way to providing support but the demand is greater than the fund can cater for, and so more needs to be done to bridge the disparity between identifying and meeting
the needs of adoptive families.
Yet despite the success of ensuring permanency for many children, there are still children who are in
need of an adoptive family.
The needs of adoptive families are different and it makes a difference if the therapist understands these families and their special concerns.