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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

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

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

Foster Care Legal Services
Adoption Legal Services
Adoption Petition Filing Offices
Kinship Adoption
Relinquishment for Adoption Assistance and Support
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Adoption Counseling and Support
Foster Home Licensing
Adoption Information/Referrals
Adoption Records
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoption Evaluation/Placement
Resources, education, advocacy, crisis intervation, and hope to adoptive families. Offers adoptive families an opportunity to better understand their children, develop family skills to meet their needs, and access appropiate resources.

Categories

Adoptive Parent/Child Search
Adoption Information/Referrals
Parenting Skills Classes
Kinship Adoption
Adoption Counseling and Support
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Services and Programs:Pregnancy Access and Education provides pregnant women information, referrals and coordination to access early and comprehensive prenatal care. Also provides assistance in accessing prenatal care to pregnant women with substance use and /or mental health concerns.

Stress Busters: Mental Healthcare, Mindfulness Practices, Supportive Relationships

Categories

Specialized Information and Referral
Infant Massage Instruction
Infant and Child Safety Education
General Bereavement and Grief Support Groups
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Pregnancy Counseling
Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders Treatment
Parent Support Groups
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Well Baby Care
Prenatal Care
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Prenatal Fitness
Home Health Aide Services
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups