HB 3187-S - DIGEST
(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

Requires, subject to the availability of funds appropriated for this purpose, the department of social and health services to contract for an information and referral services provider to support families with children adopted out of foster care and to contract for education advocacy services for children adopted out of foster care.

Requires the department to provide outreach to parents of children adopted out of foster care and encourage adoptive parents to seek an annual assessment of the functioning of the adoptive child with the family to determine if there are services needed to help maintain or strengthen the adoptive placement.