Adoptive Family Actions

• Initial call to the Agency
  
• Review pre-adopt letter
  
• Schedule and attend pre-adopt meeting
  
• Return application for adoption
  
• Complete and return admission questionnaires
  
• Participate in admission meeting

Agency Actions

• Answer questions
  
• Send pre-adopt informational letter
  
• Hold pre-adopt meetings
• Provide written information on the program and application
  
• Send admission questionnaires
  
• Schedule admission reviews
  
• Schedule individual appointments
  
• Program Administrator extends invitations to begin homestudies
  
• Couples not accepted are given recommendations and encouraged to re-apply

Adoptive Family Actions

• Acceptance letter is received
  
• Complete and return paperwork
  
• Authorize background checks
  
• Return completed questionnaires
  
• Provide required references
  
• Obtain physicals
  
• Begin in-office interviews
  
• Complete assigned reading
  
• Participate in first educational group
  
• Complete assigned reading
  
• Participate in second educational group
  
• Complete in-office interviews
  
• Schedule home visit
  
• Complete representational profile
  
• Complete "Dear Birth Parent" letters
  
• Pay current fee balance in full

Agency Actions

• Distribute homestudy paperwork
  
• Secure criminal and child abuse checks
  
• Assign reading
  
• Facilitate office interviews
  
• Send reference requests
  
• Schedule educational groups
  
• Facilitate educational groups
  
• Visit family home
  
• Approve home for placement
  
• Write homestudy

Adoptive Family Actions

• Notify agency of vacations and significant changes in family
  
• Continue educating self
  
• Attend informational and support meetings
  
• Stay in touch with the Agency
  
• Be patient
  
• Provide information for update homestudy each year

Agency Actions

• Represent families to birth parents
  
• Maintain communication with family regarding status of their profile
  
• Update homestudy each year
  
• Provide updates on program changes
  
• Schedule and facilitate occasional educational and support meetings

Adoptive Family Actions

• Participate in pre-birth meetings
  
• Explore desired openness with birth parents
  
• Respect birth parent's hospital wishes
  
• Provide foster care, if necessary
  
• Participate in relinquishment and placement

Agency Actions

• Notify family
  
• Facilitate pre-birth meetings
  
• Support and prepare adoptive family
  
• Mediate communications between birth and
  
• adoptive families
  
• Schedule relinquishment and placement
  
• Prepare documents for relinquishment and placement
  
• Facilitate relinquishment and placement

Adoptive Family Actions

• Maintain communication and contact with birth family
  
• Pay fees in full
  
• Participate in post-placement visits
  
• Sign release of information to attorney
  
• Contact attorney for finalization
  
• Continue educating self
  
• Enjoy your family
  
• Stay in touch

Agency Actions

• Write relinquishment and placement summary
  
• Provide three post-placement visits
  
• Write post-placement visit summaries
  
• Facilitate ongoing contact with birth families
  
• Send paperwork to court for finalization
  
• Provide mediation as requested