A bipartisan group of state representatives is hoping to learn more about the barriers that make child adoption challenging in Wisconsin.
The Speaker’s Task Force on Adoption was formed in May.
The committee’s first public hearing was held yesterday at UW Green Bay.
Members are examining the termination of parental rights, finding ways to shorten the adoption timeline, looking at the costs involved and ways to lower them and efforts to increase awareness about the adoption process and available resources.
Child welfare advocates say the system should offer more one-on-one support to help biological parents working to get their children back.
