It is for child care-related costs such as food, clothing, recreation, transportation, and housing cost. In extraordinary circumstances, special rates may be reimbursed to foster families who care for children with exceptional needs, as in the case of medical needs that require providing a child with specialized care, food, clothing, or equipment. Adoption subsidies Adoption subsidies are available to adoptive families to help cover the costs of special services needed by children, such as therapy, counseling, extraordinary corrective dental treatment, or medical care and supplies. In some cases, such as the adoption of a sibling group through PRS, a subsidy may help with the costs of children's food, clothing, shelter, and childcare needs. The level of assistance is based on the child's needs and availability of resources to meet those needs.
Many families are interested in both fostering and adopting.
They agree with the agency that the children's needs come first. In most cases, this means helping prepare children for reunification with their birth family, mentoring the birth parents, or working toward a relative or kinship placement. When termination of parental rights is in the children's best interest and adoption is their plan, then foster parents who have cared for the children will be given the opportunity to adopt. Dual certification of parents to both foster and adopt speeds up the placement process, reduces the number of moves a child makes, and allows relationships to evolve with the initial placement process. Nearly half the adoptions of children in PRS foster care are by their foster families.