The children featured are representative of Pennsylvania's waiting children.
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#MeetTheKids
We gave 12 Pennsylvania kids who are waiting to be adopted a chance to create their own documentary-style film. Watch the film. Meet the kids. Change a life.
Watch it here.
PA Adoption Information Registry (PAIR)
PAIR is a medical and social history database maintained by the Department of Human Services. Adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth relatives who would like to share or obtain medical or social history.
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Post-Adoption Services
The Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) offers Post-Permanency Services (often referred to as post-adoption services) to Pennsylvania families to ensure that families are provided the support they need for the long term to encourage a positive life-long experience for both adoption and foster care programs in Pennsylvania.
Three Post-Permanency Services are offered:
Case Advocacy service ensures that families receive access to services designed to meet their needs after they have made a permanent commitment to a child. Learn more...
Support Group service helps build relationships, forms a community of mentoring, provides education and offers socialization and recreational activities for families and/or their children. Learn more...
Respite service provides families with planned breaks to support a consistent level of parenting. Learn more...
Families self-refer for SWAN Post-Permanency Services by calling the SWAN Helpline at
1-800-585-79261-800-585-7926.