Your Adoption Background Check Process
A critical step that all hopeful adoptive families will take in the adoption process is undergoing a background check. Similar to screening birth parents, this procedure is to ensure a safe adoption and environment for your future child.
What Checks Are Done for Adoption?
In the early stages of your adoption journey, your agency will screen and evaluate you. This includes aspects like your:
A critical part of an adoption background check is the in-home visit from your adoption social worker. This is known as the home study.
The Adoption Home Study
A home study is one of the most in-depth components of the adoption background check process. It includes a report on the physical conditions of the home, which ensures its safety for a child.
The social worker also interviews and questions the hopeful adoptive family and other household members to make sure they’re fit to raise a child. A home study requires you to:
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Have a licensed social worker visit your home
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Consent to background checks
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Agree to the interviews conducted with each family member
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Undergo a psychological evaluation
You'll also need to gather some essential documents. These include:
Also, your social worker will examine other child-proofed aspects of the home, such as:
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Properly locked windows and doors
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Covered electrical outlets
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Functioning smoke and carbon monoxide detectors
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Gated stairs and secure rails
This is just a brief look at some of the features of the home study background check for adoption.
Generally speaking, your home must be safe for a child to live in, but the conditions do not have to be "white-glove" perfect.
So, don’t stress about making your living space spot-free. It should look like someone’s living there, after all!
Adoptive Family Profiles
Once you’ve gone through the screening process, we'll help you create an adoption profile.
The adoption profile is what we'll show to prospective birth parents. We have many programs and services to help hopeful adoptive families with this step.
One of our more unique services includes adoptive family video profiles. These video profiles allow prospective birth parents to get a visual glimpse into their lives and see the environment their child could live in.
The video profiles include interviews with you, close friends, or family members to give more insight into your lifestyle.
Many birth parents who have been a part of our community find that video profiles are highly useful when they’re choosing a hopeful adoptive family.
Passing the Adoption Background Check
By the time an expectant mother reviews families looking to adopt, they will know that you have gone through the necessary adoption background checks.
Although there are many levels to an adoption background check, commitment to the adoption process will go a long way.
Working with an experienced, licensed adoption agency like ours can make this process as smooth as possible.
For over 30 years, American Adoptions has helped create hundreds of families and continues to work with adoptive families, birth parents, and children.
Talk to an Adoption Specialist Today
At American Adoptions, our specialists have decades of experience working with families from all across the country. Some have even been in your shoes, going through the adoption process themselves as hopeful parents, birth mothers or adoptees. They can give you specific guidance about your state’s home study and adoption background check.
Disclaimer
Information available through these links is the sole property of the companies and organizations listed therein. American Adoptions provides this information as a courtesy and is in no way responsible for its content or accuracy.
Adoptive Family Profiles
Once you’ve gone through the screening process, we'll help you create an adoption profile.
The adoption profile is what we'll show to prospective birth parents. We have many programs and services to help hopeful adoptive families with this step.
One of our more unique services includes adoptive family video profiles. These video profiles allow prospective birth parents to get a visual glimpse into their lives and see the environment their child could live in.
The video profiles include interviews with you, close friends, or family members to give more insight into your lifestyle.
Many birth parents who have been a part of our community find that video profiles are highly useful when they’re choosing a hopeful adoptive family.
Passing the Adoption Background Check
By the time an expectant mother reviews families looking to adopt, they will know that you have gone through the necessary adoption background checks.
Although there are many levels to an adoption background check, commitment to the adoption process will go a long way.
Working with an experienced, licensed adoption agency like ours can make this process as smooth as possible.
For over 30 years, American Adoptions has helped create hundreds of families and continues to work with adoptive families, birth parents, and children.
Talk to an Adoption Specialist Today
At American Adoptions, our specialists have decades of experience working with families from all across the country. Some have even been in your shoes, going through the adoption process themselves as hopeful parents, birth mothers or adoptees. They can give you specific guidance about your state’s home study and adoption background check.
Information available through these links is the sole property of the companies and organizations listed therein. American Adoptions provides this information as a courtesy and is in no way responsible for its content or accuracy.
