PA: Home Sweet Home: Over 58,000 Adoptions Celebrated at Pennsylvania Permanency Conference
Explore Jefferson – June 23, 2024
Last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS) hosted the 32nd Annual Pennsylvania Permanency Conference in Monroe County, bringing together child welfare professionals, current and prospective foster or adoptive families, kinship care providers, and others to collaborate and learn ways to help children and families through the adoption and permanency process. Since the Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) began in 1992, there have been more than 58,000 adoptions in Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania averages more than 2,000 finalized adoptions from the child welfare system each fiscal year. There are more than 13,600 Pennsylvania children served in out-of-home care every six months, and nearly three thousand of those youth are in need of forever homes.