The Statewide Adoption Network (SWAN)

The Statewide Adoption Network is a broad-based cooperative effort that serves waiting children and prospective adoptive families. The network includes: the state's 67 Children and Youth Services (CYS) agencies, Juvenile and Orphans Court judges, foster and adoptive parents, private and public adoption agencies, DPW administrators and policy makers, and a prime contractor.

Two toll-free information lines, one for parents and another for adoption professionals, serve as gateways to identifying resources and needs in the system. A private adoption agency selected by DPW facilitates the effort as the prime contractor by operating the information lines, serving as a liaison among the players in the system, and managing subcontracts to affiliated adoption agencies.

SWAN Is All of Us

Although the CYS system is central to the critical decision-making in adoption, the process works best when all the key players operate in a state of continuous communication on behalf of a waiting child.

More Online Information:
The Adoption Process
Program Purpose
Program Philosophy