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Does anyone know...can we use a domestic home study to adopt a waiting child in foster care (whose parental rights have been terminated)? The child's SW said it was fine, but I think he might have misunderstood. We have not taken foster care classes, just have a private home study approving us for older children with special needs, etc.
Since the child would be an adoptive placement, not a foster placement, your homestudy would be fine. Even for the foster children we have adopted, when they become a adoptions case, we see an adoptions case worker and work only with the adoptions side of the agency. (This is in Ohio)
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Okay more questions about this :( We didn't take preservice classes (we had training, but not the specific preservice training)...we just have a private domestic home study approving us for children with special needs. We tried to join another adoption photolisting to submit our home study for a specific child there, but the person at the organization says that we can't use our home study and need to take the classes and have our home study re-done.
BUT, we submitted our home study for another waiting child with rights terminated and were going to be submitted to matching, according to his SW. We declined matching due to the child's needs, but if we got that far, I feel like it must be possible?
Can anyone weigh in? We really want to submit our home study for another child this week, and I need to figure this out asap. I would ask the child's SW directly, but since adoption photolisting won't allow us access until we take the classes, we don't have the contact info :(
Last update on November 14, 10:34 am by Sachin Gupta.