Post-adoption support is critical to achieving the goal of finding permanent, stable, loving families for children, as well as maintaining those families who have already adopted. Parents need information that will strengthen their families, and enable them to handle the challenges of adoptive parenting.

Unfortunately, these challenges are all too common. Children adopted from the foster care system face a daunting variety of physical and emotional special needs: depression and anxiety, mental illness, sexual acting out, fetal alcohol syndrome or effect, attention deficit disorder, central auditory processing disorder, emotional disabilities, attachment disorder, learning disabilities, mental retardation, orthopedic impairments, speech and language impairments, AIDS or HIV, and other severe physical disabilities.

In this section, you will find articles about post-adoption programs that describe a variety of ways agencies and communities help families and resources for adoptive families. We will soon be adding information post-adoption contacts in your state and province, plus links to model post-adoption programs and other web site to help families.

North American Council on Adoptable Children (NACAC)
970 Raymond Avenue, Suite 106
St. Paul, MN 55114
phone: 651-644-3036
fax: 651-644-9848
e-mail: info@nacac.org