The PARC Program Overview
The Post Adoption Resource Centers (PARC) provide support to adoptive and guardian parents. Children who were adopted or placed into a guardianship often possess a myriad of complex issues stemming from trauma experiences of being removed from their family of origin due to abuse/neglect. The PARCs provide adoption/trauma-sensitive services through education, training, advocacy, information, service coordination with community resources and case management services to promote ongoing stability as a family unit.
Eligibility
PARC serves youth twenty-one years of age and younger and their families, who were adopted from Michigan’s foster care system or adopted in Michigan through an international adoption or direct consent/direct placement adoption or placed in a guardianship through Michigan’s foster care system who are eligible for guardianship assistance through the MDHHS Adoption and Guardianship Assistance office.
Services
• Communication, Technology and Information Sharing – A public website with information about post adoption resources and other topics relevant to adoptive and guardianship families, a list of community agencies and resources that are located within each region, an up-to-date calendar with events and trainings, and a web-based family newsletter.
• Family Support – provides support groups, recreational experiences, mentoring and training for adoptive families. PARC facilitates monthly group events, quarterly trainings and an annual conference.
• Information Dissemination – daily telephone access for families to request general supportive services. PARC maintains a resource guide as well as brochures and other community materials.
• Case Management – short term (up to 12 months) emergency in-home interventions for families in crisis or at risk of dissolution with 24/7 assistance by phone available to the families. Limited specific assistance is also available.
Download a copy of the PARC Brochure