The Department of Children and Families may provide counseling and referral services after adoption to adoptees and adoptive families for whom the department provided such services before the adoption. Postadoption services include assigning a mentor to a family, training after licensing, support groups, behavioral management counseling, therapeutic respite care, referrals to community providers, a telephone help line and training of public and private mental health professionals in postadoption issues.(P.A. 99-166, S. 12; P.A. 01-159, S. 5.)History: P.A. 01-159 added provision re specific postadoption services. The Department of Children and Families may provide counseling and referral services after adoption to adoptees and adoptive families for whom the department provided such services before the adoption. Postadoption services include assigning a mentor to a family, training after licensing, support groups, behavioral management counseling, therapeutic respite care, referrals to community providers, a telephone help line and training of public and private mental health professionals in postadoption issues.(P.A. 99-166, S. 12; P.A. 01-159, S. 5.)History: P.A. 01-159 added provision re specific postadoption services.
Connecticut Legal Code
§ 17a-121a
Connecticut Title 17a — Connecticut law
Source: https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_319a.htm#sec_17a-121a· Version 2026