- Become a foster parent
- Become an adoptive parent
- Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network
- PA Adoption Exchange
- Waiting children
- Forms
- Post-permanency Services
- Frequently asked questions
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Post-Adoption Services
The Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) offers Post-Permanency Services (often referred to as post-adoption services) to Pennsylvania families to ensure that families are provided the support they need for the long term to encourage a positive life-long experience for both adoption and foster care programs in Pennsylvania.
Post-Permanency Services are offered to all families who have adopted, whether or not they adopted a child from the child welfare system; and to kinship and permanent legal custodianship families who provide permanency to a foster child.
Three Post-Permanency Services are offered:
- Case Advocacy service ensures that families receive access to services designed to meet their needs after they have made a permanent commitment to a child. Learn more...
- Support Group service helps build relationships, forms a community of mentoring, provides education and offers socialization and recreational activities for families and/or their children. Learn more...
- Respite service provides families with planned breaks to support a consistent level of parenting. Learn more...
Families self-refer for SWAN Post-Permanency Services by calling the SWAN Helpline at 1-800-585-7926.
Learn more about adoption and foster care support services.
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