CPS provides services under the adoption services plan to help the:

  •  adoptive family and the child adjust to the adoption;

  •  child understand his or her personal background and the reason for the adoption; and

  •  adoptive parents and their attorney consummate the adoption. (See 6954 Consummating the Adoption.)

The adoption plan helps the family adjust by giving the adoptive parents an opportunity to:

  •  identify and express any doubts or concerns they have about raising the child;

  •  identify and obtain the support services they may need to raise the child;

  •  identify and obtain services that the child needs; and

  •  develop and formally establish appropriate methods of discipline.

The plan also allows the caseworker to note any changes in the adoptive family’s health, financial condition, or composition that may affect the child’s well-being.