Responsible for comprehensive services to foster children, adoptees, biological parents, foster, and adoptive parents.

Services at County Office Building: Adoption Attorney Office Foster Care Child Protection Child Support Fiscal Juvenile Justice Prevention Resource Recovery

* Provides pregnancy counseling services and adoption services for domestic, international and older special needs children

Works in collaboration with BCDD and other local agencies to facilitate the successful placement of children who enter foster care. Provides research-based resources and supports to foster children, birth families, and adoptive families.

Information and services to: those wanting to place a child: counseling, supportive counseling, free attorney consultation, open adoption choices (choosing adoptive parents), post-adoption contact with pictures, letters and visits. families seeking to adopt and looking at all options (domestic infant and older children, international adoption): free, private one-on-one adoption consultation. couples or individuals seeking a to adopt an infant (domestic or international): free, private one-on-one consultation on options; pre-adoption education and counseling, home study preparation for adoption, post-adoption support and supervision services, referrals to professionals understanding adoption issues.

* Provides a range of services including adoption support and adoption information and referrals.

Welcomes responsible, caring adults who are ready to share their time, their hearts, and their lives with our waiting children.

Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive homes and works to place children with adoptive families.

Provides temporary care to children who are unable to remain with their family. Caseworkers provide the services and support necessary to reunite the family. If a child cannot safely to return to their family, the agency works to develop a permanent plan for the child.

Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive families, and arranges placement of children into appropriate homes. Children may be unable to stay with their family for a variety of reasons, and placement may be temporary or in some cases permanent.

* Offers a hotline to report suspected child abuse. Assistance with emergency placement of abused or neglected children at risk. Assessment for requests for foster care and adoption. * Provides a registry of child abuse reports in New York State to encourage more complete reporting of child abuse and maltreatment.

* Provides post-adoption and family support services to adoptive families or families who have been granted legal guardianship of a child. Includes: Information and assistance with referral to services, including 24/7 crisis management Individual advocacy and support Monthly support groups and family-focused social/recreational programs Parent education groups, trauma-informed trainings, and family-oriented workshops Provided in community locations including libraries, community recreation centers, and other family-friendly sites Adoption competency training for parents and professionals Will meet with families in the community, in their homes, and at Hillside locations

Promoting the well-being and safety of children, families and communities.

Information available from Adoption Information Registry (AIR): non-identifying: adopted person or his/her biological sibling can receive information about birth parents even if birth parents are not registered with (AIR) or consent to sharing. Information includes general appearance, religion, ethnicity, race, education, occupation, adoption agency name, facts and circumstances about adoption's nature and cause. identifying: parent(s) and child(ren) both registered and given consent. Adoptees and birth parents or adoptees and biological siblings can share current names and addresses. If only one parent signed surrender agreement or consented to adoption, non-registered parent's permission not needed to exchange identifying information between adoptee and registered birth parent. medical: helps adoptees determine if they have higher risk of some diseases. Birth parents can register medical and psychological information any time after adoption. Adoptee must be registered to receive medical/psychological information.

Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive families, and arranges placement of children into appropriate homes. Children may be unable to stay with their family for a variety of reasons, and placement may be temporary or in some cases permanent.

Responsible for comprehensive services to foster children, adoptees, biological parents, foster, and adoptive parents.

Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive families, and arranges placement of children into appropriate homes. Children may be unable to stay with their family for a variety of reasons, and placement may be temporary or in some cases permanent.

Provides for all aspects of adoption process: preparing children for adoption; selection and placement in appropriate adoptive homes; recruitment and certification of adoptive parents.

Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive families, and arranges placement of children into appropriate homes. Children may be unable to stay with their family for a variety of reasons, and placement may be temporary or in some cases permanent.

Information, including referrals to counseling and service providers in the community, for adoptive families.

Provides information and referral on adoption, foster care, and post-adoption services. Connects prospective parents to local social service agencies.

Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive families, and arranges placement of children into appropriate homes. Children may be unable to stay with their family for a variety of reasons, and placement may be temporary or in some cases permanent.

Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive families, and arranges placement of children into appropriate homes. Children may be unable to stay with their family for a variety of reasons, and placement may be temporary or in some cases permanent.

Recruits, trains, and certifies foster and adoptive families, and arranges placement of children into appropriate homes. Children may be unable to stay with their family for a variety of reasons, and placement may be temporary or in some cases permanent.

Provides assistance to post-adoptive, informal kinship and post-guardianship families so that children may be cared for in their own homes with their adoptive parent(s) or legal guardian(s).