If the adoptive family already has a completed study, or is there is placement with the adoptive family upon leaving the hospital, MAPS can facilitate the placement as an agency placement. A professional, caring staff is here to help with counseling, supporting legal and medical arrangements and negotiating openness issues. For families living in Maine only. Most children who are not voluntarily placed as infants are children who are protected by the public social services system as a result of abuse, neglect, abandonment or other family dysfunction. The children are placed in three ways.
Family has preparation, education and homestudy completed.
Service fees for family study in this program are determined on an individual basis and may be completely waived or refunded in some circumstances. A Medicaid card is usually available until the child reaches 18 years old. Once adoption is the permanent plan for a child, an adoptive family is sought who is willing to take the child into their home on a foster care basis until all of the legal requirements are met to proceed with adoption. Children, service fees, subsidy and Medicaid card are the same as above. A family sees or knows of an available child through advertising, picture listing, Internet, etc.