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The Family & Children's Services Foster Care Program provides foster parent recruitment, licensing of relative caregiver and foster family homes, training and support for relative caregivers and foster families and enforcement of foster care regulations. The Adoptions Program places children who are unable to live safely with their birth family into permanent homes. We recruit and screen prospective adoptive parents, finalize adoptions, provide post-adoption services and provide services to birth parents who choose to voluntarily relinquish their parental rights.

Learn more: https://www.santacruzhumanservices.org/FamilyChildren/FosterCareandAdoptions



Categories

Adoption Petition Filing Offices
Adoption Counseling and Support
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Adoption Information/Referrals
Adoption Records
Kinship Adoption
Relinquishment for Adoption Assistance and Support
Adoption Evaluation/Placement
Foster Care Legal Services
Adoption Legal Services
Foster Home Licensing
Provides guidance, advocacy, community organization, teaming, collaboration, and education case management around the issues of school success for students involved in the foster care system, including students living with their birth families but with child welfare involvement.

Stress Busters: Supportive Relationships

Categories

General Education Advocacy
Education Discrimination Assistance
Legal Information Services
Infant and Child Safety Education
Education Advocacy Groups
Parent Support Groups
Foster Care Legal Services
Education Associations

The Family & Children's Services Foster Care Program provides foster parent recruitment, licensing of relative caregiver and foster family homes, training and support for relative caregivers and foster families and enforcement of foster care regulations. The Adoptions Program places children who are unable to live safely with their birth family into permanent homes. We recruit and screen prospective adoptive parents, finalize adoptions, provide post-adoption services and provide services to birth parents who choose to voluntarily relinquish their parental rights.

Learn more: https://www.santacruzhumanservices.org/FamilyChildren/FosterCareandAdoptions



Categories

Adoption Petition Filing Offices
Adoption Counseling and Support
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Adoption Information/Referrals
Adoption Records
Kinship Adoption
Relinquishment for Adoption Assistance and Support
Adoption Evaluation/Placement
Foster Care Legal Services
Adoption Legal Services
Foster Home Licensing