What is the role of fost-adopt parents?
Fost-adopt parents are foster parents and prospective adoptive parents at the same time. Children need safe, stable families. The fost-adopt program allows children to be placed in families that are ready to adopt them if their birth parents are not able to make the changes necessary to reunite with their family. Birth parents are advised openly that adoption is the alternate plan to reunification. In addition, birth parents are counseled about all their options, including voluntarily relinquishing their child for adoption.
