by gffoi | Oct 28, 2019 | Adoptees, Adoptive Families, Birth Parents, Professionals/Students
Post Adoption services refer to the many services that people may require following an adoption. ASCS can provide services to adult adoptees around search and reunion, the newly formed adoptive family, and also to adoptive families that were formed months or even...
by gffoi | Oct 22, 2019 | Adoptees, Adoption Basics, Adoptive Families, Birth Parents, Professionals/Students, Prospective/Waiting Families
What is permanency and why is it important for children and youth? A simple way of defining permanency for children/youth is stability but it is much more than that. Permanency for children/youth is an expansive term defined as positive healthy, nurturing...
by gffoi | Oct 22, 2019 | Adoptees, Adoption Basics, Adoptive Families, Birth Parents, Professionals/Students, Prospective/Waiting Families
ASCS and the province of Saskatchewan welcomes all persons of any gender and/or sexual orientation/identity to apply to adopt domestically. In regard to international adoption, some countries may prevent persons who identify as being LGBTQ2S from adopting a child...
by gffoi | Oct 21, 2019 | Professionals/Students, Prospective/Waiting Families
Parent Resources for Information Development and Education PRIDE is a licensed model of practice for the development and support of foster and adoptive families. Foster and adoptive parents helped design the program with the goal of creating a tool to strengthen the...
by gffoi | Oct 21, 2019 | Adoption Basics, Adoptive Families, Professionals/Students, Prospective/Waiting Families
It has been shown that children do best when they are provided the truth about their lives. It can be devastating for a child, youth, or even a young adult to find out they were adopted but had been told otherwise. We support families in talking to their children...
by gffoi | Oct 21, 2019 | Birth Parents, Professionals/Students, Prospective/Waiting Families
ASCS does not provide legal services of any kind. Legal support is required in many types of adoption. In Domestic adoption with the Ministry of Social Services there are no legal fees, however, international and private/independent adoptions will require legal...
