Claudia Hutchison, longtime director of the Boys and Girls Aid Society in Portland, Oregon and manager of the Special Needs Adoption Coalition of Oregon, recently embarked on a new venture—Oregon’s Post-Adoption Resource Center (ORPARC). Below she explains how the Center came into being and what services it will provide to Oregon families who adopt children from the foster care system.
As soon as the adoption papers are signed, the newly formed family lives happily ever after, right? As adoption professionals and adoptive families know, the toughest part of adoption often comes... [more]