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    Post-Permanency Services

    The Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) offers post-permanency services (often referred to as post-adoption services) to eligible Pennsylvania families who have provided children permanency through domestic or international adoption, permanent legal custodianship, or formal kinship. Post-permanency services recognize families’ needs and ensure families have support to encourage a positive, life-long experience.

    Three post-permanency services are offered:

    Case Advocacy Service

    Ensures that families receive access to services designed to meet their needs after they have made a permanent commitment to a child.

    More about Case Advocacy Service

    Support Group Service

    Helps build relationships, forms a community of mentoring, provides education and offers socialization and recreational activities for families and/or their children.

    More about Support Group Service

    Respite Service

    Provides families with planned breaks to support a consistent level of parenting.

    More about Respite Service

    Families self-refer for SWAN Post-Permanency Services by calling the SWAN Helpline at 1-800-585-7926 or email swanhelpline@diakon-swan.org .

    The SWAN Post-Permanency Brochure contains general information about this service for families and agencies.

    Learn more about adoption and foster care support services.

    The Pennsylvania Department of Human Services (DHS), which is in part comprised of the Office of Children, Youth, and Families (OCYF) complies with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.