The adoptive placement services available by contract may include:

  •  recruitment of potential adoptive families;

  •  adoptive parent training and assessment regarding:

  •  separation and attachment; the importance of the birth, extended, and temporary families; and the need for a child to maintain sibling contact and birth family connections,

  •  dynamics and affect of abuse and neglect on children and their development,

  •  behaviors exhibited by children who have experienced the trauma of abuse and neglect,

  •  age-appropriate non-physical discipline and agreement to abide by the CPS discipline policy,

  •  availability and use of community resources, including the Adoption Assistance Program and the Post-Adoptive Services Program (Consummated Adoptions), to strengthen the support network of the adoptive family and encourage advocacy for their adopted children,

  •  sexuality and its manifestations in children who have been abused and neglected;

  •  a completed pre-adoptive home screening (previously called an adoptive home screening or a home study);

  •  participation in selection of the adoptive home;

  •  presentation of information regarding the child to the adoptive family;

  •  a completed, approved, and signed placement agreement;

  •  preparing the child's prospective adoptive parents for a placement as specified in 6943 Preparing the Family and the Child for the Placement; and

  •  a completed, approved, and signed copy of the adoption services plan.