ICPC denied

To address what wcurry66 said: "How can they approve you to foster, but not adopt? Makes no sense." They are 2 very seperate things. Fostering is a temporary placement and includes supervision and assistance from an agency under the active jurisdiction of a judicial system. At any time, your license can be revolked and a child removed if you are found unfit.Adoption requires entrusting the child/ren will be safe and from free and harm with their new legal family with no "big brother" in a permenent placement. Adoptive applicants must demonstrate that they are consistantly reliable and that the child has a slim to zero chance of returning to the government's care. This includes being healthy. Regretfully, your agency appears to see you as high risk. You have to fight harder for your rights. If yourhealth is under control she is required to take that INTO CONSIDERATION. Have you gone to Adoption Review Comittee (ARC or AARC)? Or did they just tell you your adoption home study is denied? If you have not gone yet to ARC, ask about it immediately. ARC can't complete the review without interviewing you and your husband. If you have already gone to ARC and were still denied, your denial letter will tell you you have the right to appeal in X amount of days of notice and you will be entitled to an appeal trial. For the record, no sending state (the state with jurisdiction of a child) will send a child to a placement that is not approved by your ICPC people. The receiving state (the one you reside in) is highly UNLIKELY to complete courtesy supervision for a placement they are against, and that puts the child and the sending agency's credibility at a huge risk, especially for a special needs child.