The Adoption and Foster Care Clinic

Medical Clinic Program The medical clinic is staffed by a Pediatrician, Pediatric Nurse, and OccupationalDevelopmental Therapist. Each has over 2 decades experience in pediatrics as well as the adoption continuum. This clinic offers help to families once children have been brought into their care. During an initial visit, a comprehensive health, development and wellbeing evaluation is completed. For international adoptions, the CDC required medical work up is also checklisted during the visit. Any deficits (ex.vitamin deficiencies, vaccine needs, parasite work up) identified are addressed. If a child needs to see a specialist, that visit is coordinated through the nurse case manager in clinic. Developmental delays, feeding concerns and sensory integration are also addressed via occupational therapy. This clinic provides ongoing support until the child is 21 years of age. The average clinic visit ranges from 1-3 hours. - Continued on Schedule O

Pre-Adoption Review Program A crucial piece to adoption and foster success is careful and strategic matching of parents with non-biological children. Our goal is that all parents entering this dynamic be as informed as possible. The parents need to know and understand their capacity to care for a child that may have some extensive needs. Our Pre-AdoptionFostering file review program offers one on one consultations. A special needs checklist review helps parents to understand the general medical terms and care sequala of various diagnosis prior to the match process. This empowers the parent to make wise decisions on which needs they are best equipped to meet. A pre-adoption file review is comprehensive medical review of a specific childs file with the prospective parents. Everything from medical documentation, photos, videos and social services reports are reviewed with parents. The potential known long term needs are discussed so that - continued on Schedule O