Service Name: ADOPTION SERVICES

Organization Name: BUTTE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL SERVICES

• Description: Offers adoption services and is able to facilitate adoptions of children in foster care. Adoption through Butte County Adoption Services requires involvement with the dependency court and adherence to public child welfare regulations.
• Website: https://www.buttecounty.net/433/Butte-County-Adoptions
• Phone(s):
• Eligibility: In order to adopt, parents must attend an agency orientation, become licensed as foster parents in order to care for the child until the adoption is finalized and complete all required background checks and home studies. Applicants may be single, married, partnered, divorced, widowed or legally separated. There are no set income requirements. Certain criminal convictions such as violent or sexual crimes against children disqualify an applicant from adoption. In order to adopt, parents must first be licensed as foster parents in order to care for the child until the adoption is finalizes. Relatives of children they are adopting need to be approved by Butte County Children's Service as a relative caregiver and certain State requirements must be met.
• Areas Served:
  • Butte United States
• Categories:
  • Adoption Evaluation/Placement
  • Adoption Information/Referrals
  • Postadoption Counseling and Support