Post-Adoption Help for Families

Use the following links to change to translated versions of this page.

You are on this page: Post-Adoption Help for Families

The Office of Children and Family Services is committed to identifying connections to the services most frequently sought by adoptive families in need of support. The contact listings are intended to cover the broadest range of needs. Please be aware of how the response feels to you; if something does not appear to be meeting your family's needs, try a different provider or even a different direction.

Contents

Crisis Links/Toll Free Hotline Numbers

If you or someone you know is currently in immediate danger of being harmed, we urge you to call 911 now.

• 211
• 311 (New York City only)
• NYC Well:
  1-888-692-9355 (1-888-NYC-WELL) Press 2 for English; 3 for Spanish; 4 for Asian.
  1-212-982-5284 CALL 711 (Relay Service for Deaf/Hard of Hearing) (TTY)
• National Youth Crisis Hotline (Hopeline): 1-800-442-HOPE (4673)
• Boys Town Suicide and Crisis Line: 1-800-448-3000 or 1-800-448-1833 (TDD)
• National Runaway Switchboard: 1-800-RUNAWAY (1-800-786-2929) or TEXT 66008
• Advocates for Children (Education) Helpline: 1-866-427-6033 (New York City only, Monday-Thursday)

Resources/Information Web Sites

• Adoptive and Foster Family Coalition New York
• Center for the Improvement of Child Caring, (CICC)
• Child Welfare Information Gateway
• Families Together in NYS, Inc
• Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children
• National Alliance for Mental Illness of New York State (NAMI-NYS)
• NYC Well
• New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, (OASAS)
• New York State Department of Education- Resource for Parents
• NYS Kinship Navigator Program
• New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities
• New York State Office of Mental Health – Mental Health Resources for the Public
• Parent to Parent of New York State
• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Services for Children and Families

OCFS and your local department of social services are available to support and assist adoptive families. Please consider contacting your local department of social services, as well as, the other agencies listed here to help identify needed services, direct you to community resources and other adoptive parents, or just to provide a listening ear.

TANF Post-Adoption Funding

Governor Cuomo Announces $1.57 Million For Post-Adoption Services

New York Council on Adoptable Children (Serving NYC)

Program Contact:
Joann Buttaro
333 W 39th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10018
212-475-0222

Regional Permanency Resource Centers (PRCs)

PRCs work to:

• prevent post-adoptive and post-guardianship dissolutions/disruptions,
• provide assistance to families so that children may be cared for in their own homes with their adoptive parent(s) or legal guardian(s),
• strengthen post-adoptive and post-guardianship families, and
• avoid foster care or other out-of-home placements.

PRCs serve post-adoptive families and post-guardianship families. Post-adoptive families are families who have finalized the adoption of their child. They include any adoptive family member, whether the adoption was an agency (public or authorized voluntary agency) adoption; a private placement adoption; or an international adoption. Post-guardianship families include families with legal guardianship of the child and an approved KinGAP agreement or families with legal guardianship without a KinGAP agreement.