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 Children’s
Friend became the first adoption agency in Central Massachusetts
in the 1850’s. We’re proud that we’re still
helping to bring families together more than 150 years later.
Our licensed
Adoption and Family Services Department provides foster care and
adoption-related services, including:
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Home
studies, supervision, and finalization services to complete
out-of-state, or relative adoption and placement.
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Child adoption assessments, home studies, and case consultation
to the Massachusetts Department of Social Services.
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Searches for adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents whose
adoptions were completed at Children’s Friend.
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Post-placement counseling.
Special
Services
Therapeutic
Supervised Visitation
The Therapeutic Supervised Visitation (TSV) program provides a
safe and structured setting where children, adoptive parents or
guardians, and birth families come together with one goal: for
children to know the love of their families. Sharing time together
reinforces important family ties when children cannot live with
their birth families. The children we serve are in adoptive homes
or under legal guardianships. Our program is unique because we
offer:
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face-to-face contact between children, birth parents, and adoptive
families or guardians.
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facilitation by licensed therapists.
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child-centered activities.
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a comfortable setting.
MAPP
Our staff is qualified to give Massachusetts Approach to Partnership
in Parenting (MAPP) training. This is a training that is required
for foster and pre-adoptive parents.
Contact
Us
The Adoption and Family Services Program is located at 21 Cedar
Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Please call Veronica Listerud,
LICSW, Director of Adoption and Family Services, at (508) 753-5425
or email adoption@childrensfriend.org. |
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