Waiting Child Adoption

There are hundreds of children waiting for adoptive families in Virginia. These children need forever families through adoption.  Many of these children are nine and older and have experienced separation and trauma in their young lives.  They need what every child needs; to be part of a family, to be treated with kindness and respect, to be nurtured, to have fun and to have a permanent place that is called HOME.

Children who leave the foster care system without a permanent family are at an increased risk of dropping out of school, becoming incarcerated and/or homeless.  They often require community mental health and welfare assistance programs.  These children deserve so much more from us.  Coordinators²inc offers the training and support families interested in this type of adoption will need to successfully adopt and parent a child who has lived in foster care.

The fees for training and home study services for children you see featured here are offered through a state grant.  There is no cost to parents who adopt children in the foster care system in Virginia. For families interested in adopting children waiting in foster care from other states, the fees are similar to those in our Infant and International Adoption programs. However, many states offer incentives to reimburse adoption expenses when the child is placed from foster care; often, those reimbursements in the end make the adoption costs little to nothing.

Please read about some of Virginia's Waiting Children on our WAITING CHILDREN page.

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