Finding the Right Match

Children are waiting all over the United States. The Wyoming Children’s Society works with surrounding states in an effort to find permanent homes for waiting children. As an approved special needs adoptive family, your completed home study will be sent to these states for their consideration when a child is identified.

If a child is located outside Wyoming, you will travel to meet the child. This will give you the opportunity to meet the child’s foster parents, social worker, counselor, teachers and other individuals significant in the child’s life. In some instances, expenses will be reimbursed to the adopting family by the state where the child resides.

Children become available for adoption for several reasons. Parents may voluntarily relinquish their parental rights simply because they are unable to care for their children. The court may terminate parental rights due to repeated abuse or chronic neglect or endangerment. In these cases, children remain in foster care until an adoptive family is identified.

Once your home study is complete and you have participated in the Special Needs Adoption Training, your home study will be sent to social workers in and out of Wyoming for consideration.  In the case of waiting children, the Wyoming Children’s Society will provide your home study and advocate for you as an approved adoptive family.  The social worker and agency having custody of the waiting child will make the final selection of the family for that child.