What if the child and adoptive parent(s) can not make their new family work?
According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families, approximately 80 to 90 percent of special needs adoptions are successful. Education and support resources for families before, during and after an adoption is final, can make a big difference to the success of the adoptive family. REACH works to make these resources available whenever and wherever they are needed. When adoption relationships do not work, it is a difficult emotional situation for everyone. Social service professionals work with the adoptive family and with the child to try to find the next best option for everyone and focus on finding permanency for the child. In most cases with young children, the search begins to find another adoptive family. Teens and older youth sometimes stay in long-term foster care or with a guardian rather than enter the adoption system again.
