Concurrent Adoption Permanency Plan

Adoption is the legal and emotional acceptance of a child into a family where the child was not born, a way of providing new families for children who cannot be brought up by their biological parents and it’s a legal procedure in which all parental responsibility is transferred to the adopters. Once an adoption has been granted, it cannot be reversed and the adopted child loses all legal ties with their birth parents and becomes a full member of the adoptive family, usually taking the family's name.

People who choose to adopt are very special in that they have a strong belief that all children deserve a loving family to call their own. There are many children in Maryland that want nothing more than to become part of a loving stable family

To be effective, concurrent planning requires not only the identification of an alternative plan, but also the implementation of active efforts toward both plans simultaneously, with the full knowledge of all participants. Compared to more traditional sequential planning for permanency, in which one permanency plan is ruled out before an alternative is developed, concurrent planning may provide earlier permanency for the child.1 The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (P.L. 105-89) mandated shortened timelines for achieving permanency for children in foster care. To meet these timelines, Maryland has identified concurrent planning as a recognized or required practice for achieving

They experience child abuse which includes i.e. any use of force that causes pain or injury such as, hitting, slapping, shoving, grabbing, pinching, biting, hair pulling, etc., sexual abuse which is coercing or attempting to coerce any sexual contact or behavior without consent. Sexual abuse includes, but is certainly not limited to, rape, attacks on sexual parts of the body, forcing sex after physical violence has occurred, or treating one in a sexually demeaning manner, emotional abuse, which includes any pattern of behavior that causes emotional pain that can include constant criticism, diminishing one's abilities, name-calling or being unfaithful, psychological abuse which includes causing fear by intimidation; threatening physical harm to self, children’s family or friends; destruction of pets and property; and forcing isolation from family, friends, or school and/or work and neglect which is the failure to provide a minimum standard of care for a child’s physical and emotional