Post-Placement Visits

Post-placement studies by a case worker are occasionally known as post-placement supervision. The two major purposes are to collect information and to offer assistance. As soon as a child has successfully been placed into your own home, all states, non-public agencies and international countries will demand a number of post-placement appointments. The time of these appointments might need to comply with state, agency or even country mandates. The social worker might have to visit your home once or a couple of times. This usually will take place anywhere between three and six months depending upon the legal requirements of the county where you live and the place from which you adopted. A domestic adoption can't be completed until a licensed social worker prepares a post-placement home study report. This kind of report is then sent to the court in order for a judge to agree to the adoption.

The first aim of the post-placement trip is to help make this an easy transition. Adoption of a child can frequently call for substantial adjustments for family members and to your house. Before adopting, your property might have been very organized and now it's been changed to allow for toys and games, baby equipment and general mayhem. The social worker is there to offer support, assistance and training to the adoptive mother or father(s). They're there to answer any questions you might have about basic child care, sibling adjustment responses and to make referrals to other specialists if advised. This is an opportunity to investigate concerns about attachment, parenting, behavior and/or health problems together with your social worker.

The next purpose is to gather the required information needed in order to organize a written report for the judge and/or place of your child’s origin.

A lot of adoptive parents, to some degree are anxious about post-placement visits. They might believe that the social worker is ‘spying’ on them. Just like the pre-placement home study, the post-placement report will take care of a substantial amount of details. This document will tackle the issue of how the child and parent(s) are bonding and adjusting as a new family. The social worker may wish to see you communicate with your new child. They are certainly not trying to find the ‘perfect parent’, but one who is loving and honest. In addition, you'll need a letter from your child’s doctor, declaring the current health and developmental status, any health problems, and that your son or daughter is up to date with all immunizations. A positive written statement from the child’s teacher will also be necessary if they're of school age.

Please contact Radis Adoptions at 800-813-9345 for more information about post-adoption!