ADOPTIVE PLACEMENT POLICY

The primary focus of the Adoption Unit of Children’s Home Foster Care Division when placing a child for adoption is to act in the best interest of the child. Each child’s individual needs are taken into consideration when finding a permanent adoptive home.

All of our adoptions are conversion adoptions, where foster parents, in whose homes a child has been placed, decides to adopt the child. If this home does not result in the adoption of the child, former caretakers of the child, with whom a significant relationship has been established, will be eligible for consideration as adoptive parents. Any adoptive placements take place as soon as the child and the adoptive parents are ready for the placement.

The Children’s Home Adoption Unit denies no child an opportunity for adoption based on age, sex, religion, race, nationality, residence, or disabling condition. We also ensure that the availability or unavailability of a home does not dictate any placement decisions detrimental to the child’s best interest.

Preferential treatment

Preferential treatment in child placement or any matters relating to adoption services shall not be given to our board members, contributors, volunteers, employees, agents, consultants, or independent contractors or to the relatives of these persons. Relatives as defined in this policy are those persons related by blood or adoption to include parents, grandparents, siblings, great-grandparents, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, first cousins, great aunts or great uncles, and step-parents or step-siblings. Relatives also include the spouse of these named relatives.