Best Practices for Implementing Post-Adoption and Wrap...

Adoptive Families are special; they have a desire to grow their families by reaching out to children that need homes. These families face many unique challenges, but also receive many rewards, associated with the decision to adopt. These challenges continue for many families, through the process of adoption, legal finalization, and for many years post-adoption. The challenges are different in many ways from those faced by biological parents. Adoptive parents not only face the normal challenges faced from raising a child, but also the psychological issues of the child/ren adopted. Some children placed for adoption have social, psychological, or physical problems that many adoptive families may not be able to address. Previous research has shown an association between post adoption services and successful adoptive placements. â€Å"Post adoption services often respond to the effects that separation, loss, and trauma can have on children and youth who have been adopted. They can facil itate adjustment processes; promote child, youth, and family well-being; and support family preservation† (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2012). It is because of these issues, and many others, that placement agency must consider when providing wrap around services for families. Wrap around post adoption services can provide extended services for families in order to address some of the negative risk factors associated with adoption. These services can also provide future resources for families