Jobs in adoption?

Question

At school, we are studying what we want to be when we are older. I really, really, really want a job that has to do with children, and adoption. What kind of jobs are there that have to do with children and adoption that aren't social workers?

Answer 1

You could work with the family who adopt special needs children from foster care and help them get the services and things they need so that their families can be better able to help their child.

You could work as a trainer for families getting ready to adopt and also as a person who teaches teachers how to help adopted children in schools...

You could become a support group organizer and facilitator and help the leaders be ready to help the parents better.

You could become an attorney and work with families who are adopting, or dealing with family related issues.

A congresswoman or senator and be in the government to help see to it that some of the bad laws are changed and some of the good laws get written.

Treatment: Children who are older when they are adopted often have some real emotional problems.... You could become a Therapist or Doctor who helps them... Or work at a treatment center with these children.

Respite Care Provider: Parents with children who are Special Needs often have a terrible time finding anyone they can trust or who will take care of their child even for an hour...You could help these families by becoming a Respite Care Provider.

Foster Parent: You could help children before they are adopted and provide a safe, loving home they can live in until they go back to their famiies or are adopted.

Big Sister/Big Brother sometimes an older child with a new families needs an outside ear, or person to just go be a kid with...someone who isn't part of the family but, wants to be a friend and help a kid learn to trust their lives will be better.

Physical Therapists... Many children adopted from foster care have drug and alcohol exposure which causes some physical problems learning how to work with gross and fine motor skills...

***ADDED: Caseworkers do Not only work with Birth mothers that might be true with Baby Adoption but, with CHILDREN this is usually a foster child and Caseworkers are the people who are assigned to Take A Child's Case and make the arrangements for Foster Care, work with the Biological Families to help them reunite, or make the plans for adoption---including searching for the adoptive family...

An Adoption Worker for the Foster Care programs, works with the people who have said they want to adopt a CHILD and that person helps create the Home Study and works with the parents to communicate with the Child's Caseworkers...

I Believe that YOU said you want to know about Jobs that help Children and Adoption if you meant Newborns then the others here have some ideas....

Answer 2

You could work with an adoption agency I don't know what the official names of the jobs are.  But you help facilitate adoptions of children that are willingly being placed and happily being welcomed home by their adoptive family.

I wouldn't wand to be a social worker either!

Answer 3

Other than Directors, Social Workers with a Bachelors or Masters degree, there are Caseworkers who may have a degree in many areas.  

Caseworkers work directly with birthmothers, taking them to doctor appointments, staying with clients in the hospital, support services, etc.  The give para-professional assistance.  And there are Case Work Assistants, who may or may not have a degree, and work in the office with filing, making packets, helping clients with groceries, babysitting, etc. They are under the Caseworker.  And of course there are secretary and reception jobs in large agencies.

Answer 4

You could work for the county or state government and give adoptees their records when they request them.  

Trust me, you'd be a hero.

Answer 5

You could contract to agencies and write homestudies.  That's the only job in adoption that I know of that isn't a social worker position.

Answer 6

If you want to perform counseling, in most states you must have a masters in social work...not psychology or sociology, social work.  

You could be a receptionist, maybe a travel aid (but they usually want degrees), or an attorney.