Minnesota Children Waiting for Adoptive Homes

BRANDIE

BEN

PATH Adoption Services Include:

• Adoption Studies and Study Updates

• Adoption Placements

• Training and Education

• Child-Specific Recruitment

• Life Book Planning

• Parent-Child Disengagement Services

• Foster Parent Adoptions

• Post-Adoption Support

These services are provided without cost to participants.

Who Should Participate?

• Families interested in adopting

• Social workers serving children who are under guardianship of the state

• Others interested in helping permanency become reality for special

Minnesota children
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) has contracted with PATH and a group of other licensed agencies to assist in the adoption of children committed to the guardianship of the Commissioner. The overall goal of the Initiative is to increase the number of adoptions of these children.

Special emphasis is on:

• Preparing prospective adoptive families that reflect the diversity of the children needing adoption;

• Preparing prospective adoptive families residing in regions of the state with fewer adoptive services;

• Increasing the number of prospective adoptive families for children with severe emotional or developmental problems.

Priorities include finding adoptive families for:

• Sibling groups of three or more;

• Children over the age of 11;

• Children with severe emotional, behavioral or developmental problems; and

• Children of African American, American Indian, Asian and Hispanic descent

PATH is actively involved in adoptions of children in its foster care program. More than half of the children in PATH who have been adopted were adopted by their PATH foster parents.

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Requirements and PATH Adoption Home Study Process

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