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Waiting Children Adoption Program
The Wyoming Children’s Society is committed to finding loving, permanent homes for waiting children in the public foster care system. These children are defined as having special needs that may include behavioral, emotional, educational, and/or medical challenges, or children who are members of a sibling group that needs to be placed together. The Society’s professional staff actively recruit, assess, prepare and support adoptive homes for the particular challenges of parenting children who have been victims of abuse and neglect.
Wendy’s Wonderful Kids(copyright)
Wendy’s Wonderful Kids is a signature program of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. The Wendy’s program provides non-competitive, invitation-only grants to private licensed adoption agencies with experienced adoption recruiters to assist public child welfare agencies in moving children from foster care into permanent, loving adoptive homes. The Wyoming Children's Society is the sole designated Wyoming agency for Wendy's Wonderful Kids, and since July 2006 the Society has been working closely with the Wyoming Department of Family Services and its various field offices to recruit adoptive homes for Wyoming foster children.
Getting Prepared
Training
is available to adoptive parents. It focuses on such subjects as
abuse and neglect, grief and loss, attachment, discipline and self
esteem. Adoptive parents of waiting children are required to attend
special needs training because these children and their families
face special challenges.
Financial Assistance
Adoption
subsidies to adoptive families are available for most waiting children.
There
is more information at the links provided. These are information
resources as well as links to photos of waiting children who are
available for adoption.
http://www.adoptex.org
The Adoption Exchange in Aurora, CO 1-800-451-5246 Photo listing
of waiting children in Colorado, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, South
Dakota, Oklahoma, and Utah
http://www.nwae.org
The North West Adoption Exchange in Seattle, WA 206-441-6822 Photo
listing of waiting children in Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah
and Washington.
http://www.adopting.com
Website covering adoption related questions and contains photolisting
of children awaiting adoption.
http://dfsweb.state.wy.us/CHILDSVC/
UPDATES/ADOPTION/Tocadp.htm
State
of Wyoming Department of Family Services photolisting of children
awaiting adoption in Wyoming.
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WHO
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WAITING
CHILDREN?
Sibling groups who need to find a home where they can stay
together |
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Children
who may have been victims of physical or sexual abuse and
neglect |
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Children
who may have emotional, medical and/or physical disabilities
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Children
who have been in the foster care system, possibly having experienced
many moves |
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Children
who are school age |
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Children
of minority heritage |
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