FOSTER & ADOPT
ADOPTION SERVICES
Many people recall their childhoods as a time of play, learning, and growth. But for hundreds of local children, this critically formative time has brought the suffering of abuse, abandonment, neglect and trauma. They have a great need for caring homes now to love them, nurture them and show them a more positive way of life.
Our adoption services connect children who have suffered abuse and neglect with loving forever families.
ADOPTION OVERVIEW
Adoptive parents become the legal parents to a child, providing a forever family. Both foster and adoptive parenting are vitally important and change the world—one child at a time.
Adoption is the legal process of becoming the parent to a child. It includes all the rights and responsibilities of being a parent and includes the duty to protect the child and the responsibility to provide the child with food, shelter, education and health care, including the authority to consent to surgery or other extraordinary medical care in an emergency.
Our adoption services connect children who have suffered abuse and neglect with loving forever families. Adoption transfers all parental rights to adoptive parents, making the adopted child a legal member of the new family. Ask yourself if you feel called to open your heart and home to a local child or group of siblings.
Kids Central is charged with providing adoption services for all five counties in Circuit 5 and contracts with its case management agencies to also provide adoption services. Kids Central recruits, trains and licenses adoptive homes whom are interested in adopting children from the child welfare system. Kids Central, Lutheran Family Services, and Youth and Family Advocates are responsible for case management services to children available for adoption.
Kids Central continues to provide oversight and final approval for all the Adoption Subsidy files, Separation of Sibling Staffings, and the Adoption Applicant Review Committee Meetings.
