{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-17a-121a","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17a-121a","heading":"Counseling and referral services after adoption to certain adoptees and adoptive families. Postadoption services.","body":"The Department of Children and Families may provide counseling and referral services after adoption to adoptees and adoptive families for whom the department provided such services before the adoption. Postadoption services include assigning a mentor to a family, training after licensing, support groups, behavioral management counseling, therapeutic respite care, referrals to community providers, a telephone help line and training of public and private mental health professionals in postadoption issues.","path":["TITLE 17a. SOCIAL AND HUMAN SERVICES AND RESOURCES","CHAPTER 319a*. CHILD WELFARE","PART I. DEPENDENT AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_319a.htm#sec_17a-121a","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:02Z","sha256":"d85be2a83ad7fbe583b9e0642802d67e6cbfdc48cf21b5b4b8decf5bbf4acc3d","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-17a-121","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-17a-122-to-17a-124"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}