Support, information, and training
The need for support doesn’t end once adoption is finalized. We’re here to help you throughout the adoption process and beyond. Find information and key resources for getting the support you need post-adoption.
Ongoing learning
We offer a variety of training resources for families, including pre-recorded webinars and self-study materials. Topics cover a wide range of post-adoption needs such as building families through adoption, how to talk to children about adoption, and how to choose therapeutic or residential services.
Explore trainingBuild your support system
When you become an adoptive family, you may need to build up your support system even more.
Resources for developing a support system
- Strengthen your forever family: A step-by-step guide from Dave Thomas Foundation about post-adoption to help families reconsider and build the supports around their families.
- Finding and using post-adoption services is another reference of what might be helpful after adoption.
- Maybe you want to start your own support group. Where to begin? Check out this guide called starting and nurturing adoptive parent groups: a guide for leaders.
- Safety planning tool from the Oregon Post-Adoption Resource Center. Though produced in Oregon, this tool contains great information and a step-by-step process to make a plan to help you in a crisis.
- What’s available in your part of the state? Check out Alaska 2-1-1. This web-based and phone-based service is your place to start to find out resources of interest to your family.
- Impact of adoption on adoptive parents from the Child Welfare Information Gateway.
Support groups and social media groups
Support groups for post-adoptive families are available in many regions across Alaska. Contact us to find a support group near you.
There are many social media pages and groups that offer support to families. Check out these three Alaska Facebook pages to get in contact with other adoptive parents in our state.
- Alaska Adoptive and Foster Parents: A closed group open to foster and adoptive families in Alaska.
- Interior Alaska Foster Care Families: A great resource for support from both foster and adoptive families in the interior of Alaska, though they are open to families from around the state.
- Southeast Alaska Foster Care Families: A regional group focusing on supporting foster and adoptive families in the Southeast panhandle of Alaska.
Contact us
We are here to help! Contact us for information, support, and to have your questions answered today.
Additional resources
Residential treatment information
- Residential care for children and youth in Alaska
- Residential programs for struggling adolescents
- Sending your child to an RTF placement: Nine questions to ask
- Selecting a residential treatment center for your child
National resources
- AdoptUSKids post-adoption resources: Information on the Adoption Tax Credit, adoption subsidies, and respite care.
- The North American Council on Adoptable Children: Information on the Adoption Tax Credit, a one-time tax credit given to families adopting children with special needs, most adoptions from foster care qualify, but the qualifications and benefits varies from year to year.
- CASE adoption supports: Information, publications, and webinars with an adoption focus.
- Adoption learning partners: Webinars and information to help families on the adoption journey.
- National Council for Adoption: Publishes the Adoption Advocate which has a more clinical look at adoption issues.
- Adoptive Families: A community and resource place for families who have adopted.
Articles
- Searching for birth relatives from the Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Openness in adoption building relationship between adoptive and birth families from the Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Helping your foster child transition to your adopted child from the Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Impact of adoption on adopted persons from the Child Welfare Information Gateway
- Parenting your adopted teenager from the Child Welfare Information Network
- Parenting your adopted school-age child from the Child Welfare Information Network
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