Services for Families

Adoption & Foster Care Licensing
CHS provides a great deal of training and support foster and adoptive families in order to better equip them to parent children with challenging needs. CHS offers MAPP Training, assigned social workers for every foster/adoptive family, a team framework to help support families, and on-going training events for families. Families wishing to adopt from the foster care system receive free home study services. CHS also provides a great deal of post adoption support and therapeutic services for families.

Contract Home Study Services
CHS provides home study services throughout the state for anyone seeking to adopt a child or children through agency placements (any state), international adoption, direct placements, and stepparent/relative adoption. Home study services are provided for a fee, which is contracted with the family when the assessment process begins. Click here for more information on home study services.

Family Chronicles
Families can utilize CHS’s Adoption Chronicles production services to createvideo interviews featuring details about the family’s life, home, and personalities. These Family Chronicles can be used by social work teams to find matches for waiting children and birth mothers. These videos can also be used to share information about a foster family with a child entering a new placement to alleviate transition issues. Click here for more information on Family Chronicles.

Birth Parent Services
CHS has highly experienced, caring social workers who work closely with birth parents considering adoption. These services are designed to help birth parents make decisions with confidence in a non-judgmental, supportive environment. Click here for more information on birth parent services.

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For more information, please call 1-800-632-1400 or contact us.