Adoption competent care should be seen as a strategic system investment, not just a clinical service.
Key points:
- ACEs increase long-term health, behavioral health, and system costs.
- Children in adoption, foster, and kinship care often face higher adversity and trauma.
- Adoption competent services help systems intervene earlier and more effectively.
- Investing in these services targets populations with the greatest need and highest potential cost impact.
- This shifts adoption competency from a clinical enhancement to a prevention and cost-avoidance strategy.
