Helping Your Child Transition from Foster Care to Adoption

Authors

Child Welfare Information Gateway

Files

Description

This factsheet for families offers tips for helping a child transition from foster care to adoption. Children and youth may not clearly understand the difference between being in out-of-home care and being adopted within the same family. This factsheet provides parents with steps they can take to promote attachment and ease the adjustment process at specific developmental stages along with helpful resources to encourage permanency.

Publication Date

2018

Recommended Citation

Child Welfare Information Gateway, "Helping Your Child Transition from Foster Care to Adoption" (2018). Adoption and Post-Adoption. 6.
https://scholarlycollection.childrens.com/rjfcce-rec-adopt/6