Medina's Foster-Adoption Program recruits and prepares families to adopt children who are currently living in foster care. These children are of all ages and races and may have experienced emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Their family backgrounds may include substance abuse, mental illness, and retardation. Some of these children are also part of a sibling group who will be adopted together. Our experienced staff will guide you through the process of adopting a foster child and support you while you create a strong, new family.
Families make the commitment to adopt the children if and when it becomes legally possible.
The children are placed with adoptive families who are foster care licensed until birth parent rights are terminated by the courts. Many other children, especially those age 6 and up, children of color, and those who are part of a sibling group, are legally free and waiting in the foster care system for a family.