Potter County Human Services

The Adoption Services provide activities designed to culminate in legal adoption. These services include, but are not limited to: 

	Adoptive home recruitment
	Study of the child and natural parents
	Study of the adoptive applicants
	Placement and supervision of the child in the adoptive home
	Preparation and presentation of material for the adoption hearing
	An assuring of adoption subsidies when needed.

Additional subsidies are available as a method for encouraging and promoting the placement in adoptive homes of children who are; physically and/or mentally handicapped, emotionally disturbed, physically disabled or mentally handicapped, emotionally disturbed, or hard to place by virtue of age, sibling relationship, or ethnicity.