What happens after adoption?

I would think it would depend on how many children your license originally was for, how many beds you have, and/or if you could increase either/both. Say you're licensed for 1 child, you adopt your foster child, you might be considered "full" if you don't have a bed for a second child. Talk with your LW on how many children you can be licensed for (with or without your own children), how many beds you have, etc. But just because you adopt doesn't close your license unless you want to, or there is some strange agency rule. Or like I said you are full.

No, not if your license is current.

We are in the process of getting licensed again. We closed our home when we thought our family was complete. Fast forward 5 years and we're starting over again....

Would it be like if you wanted to adopt but got pregnant? Like a waiting period after adopting before you could get another placement?

I did wait a few months after Li'l Singer's adoption to accept another placement, but didn't need to do anything as my license was current. My license never expires, I could not keep up with agency standards and they could remove it. I was originally licensed for two, after Li'l Singer's adoption I asked that it be increased to three so I could take a sibling pair, if necessary.

Here, they want us to wait a year before accepting another placement. I am not sure if that is mandatory or just recommended as we agreed with them and actually waited longer to start again. Our license is good for 2 years so we would not have had to start from scratch if we had kept renewing it, but as we were not sure what we planned to do, we let it lapse and yes, we had to start at the very beginning. That included the two hour orientation which we have now done 3 times. I think the next time we get licensed, we will offer to just present the silly thing ourselves.

There is no fine print, that I know of, that says your FP license expires when you adopt. Thankfully. After TPR happened we did tell our LW that we wanted to wait on any new placements till after the adoption happened. We just did not know it would take 1.5 years for that to happen. :eek: Once we adopted I gave the LW a call and said we would be available to take more kids. Got a call for a few, said "no". Got a call for another, said "yes." Turned out to be short term, which was okay though it showed me we are not a 'short term' family. We plan to keep renewing our license as we are not sure what life will bring ... but know we do NOT want to have to retake PRIDE training. :wings: