04/15/2024 - How Friends and Family Can Support Adoptive Families

In a world where every child deserves a loving, stable, and forever home, adoption offers hope and possibility. However, the adoption journey extends far beyond placing a child into a new family. It’s a lifelong commitment with unique challenges, joys, and triumphs.  The Children’s Home Society of Virginia understands that adoption is a lifelong process. […]

08/31/2023 - Post Adoption Support for Adoptive Families

Throughout the lifetime of adoption, loss, grief, identity, attachment, and trauma impact youth and their families.  Youth are placed into foster care at no fault of their own. When a child experiences neglect, abuse, abandonment, or other issues that endanger their health or safety, they will be removed from their homes and placed into the […]