What is Youth Villages part in the adoption process?
Youth Villages provides training for prospective adoptive parents, prepares a written home study of the adoptive family and registers them with REACT. We also prepare the children for adoption. We match waiting children with adoptive homes and provide general information about possible matching children to prospective adoptive parents. After a family and child are matched, we facilitate the placement of the child in the adoptive home through the sharing of written information, face to face visits between the child and family and ongoing support for both the child and the family. We also assist with filing legal documents and obtaining adoption assistance or subsidies to help defray the fees associated with adoption. Youth Villages provides the court with a report on the adoptive home. We also provide ongoing support services for the child and family after the adoption is final.
