Adoption
1. Orientation Meeting:
The Orientation meeting is the introduction to the agency and the adoption process. The orientation meeting is mandatory for all applicants that live within a 100-mile radius of the agency.
2. Application:
Complete the Application and the Adoption Disclosure Form.
3. Background Checks:
Applicants complete Background Checks.
4. Pre-Adoption Training:
All applicants are required to complete twelve hours of training provided by Finally Home Christian Adoption Services. Adult family members are welcome to attend with applicants (i.e. grandparents, adult children, siblings).
5. Home Study Packet:
Applicants are provided a home study packet from Finally Home and complete the required documents. A home study is a screening of the home and life of prospective adoptive parents prior to allowing an adoption to take place. Florida law requires a completed home study.
6. Home Study & Home Visits:
Once the above steps are completed, the adoption specialist will contact the applicants to schedule the two required home visits and complete the home study. Once the home visits are completed, Finally Home will notify applicants in writing of their approval as prospective adoptive parents. The social worker will write the home study from the documents completed by the applicants and the information gathered in the home visits.
7. Profiling Process:
Families that have been approved through the home study process are eligible to have their profiles available to birth parents. Agency staff will provide you with information as to how to complete an attractive, appealing profile.
8. Matching Process:
Finally Home will begin the matching process and look for matching profiles between the adoptive family and birth mothers. When we find a potential match, Finally Home will provide your profile to birth mothers/fathers for their consideration.
9. Placement:
Placements generally occur when the baby is discharged from the hospital.
10. Post Placement Supervision:
The state of Florida requires that the adoptive family receive monthly home visits by an adoption caseworker prior to the finalization of their adoption.
11. Finalization:
This hearing will take place no sooner than one month after the voluntary relinquishment hearing. Finally Home forwards the updated clearances, updated home study, and post placement reports to the Court House prior to the hearing date. Finally Home staff accompanies adoptive families to the Court House for their hearing. Adoptive families are welcome to invite other family members to the hearing to participate in this celebration. Birth parents will not be at this hearing.
12. Post Finalization:
Finally Home desires to continue to support families throughout their adoption journey. The agency facilitates a minimum of ongoing non-identity communication between birth families and adoptive families. Families can contact the agency at any time to arrange individual post finalization services.
1. Orientation Meeting:
The Orientation meeting is the introduction to the agency and the adoption process. The orientation meeting is mandatory for all applicants that live within a 100-mile radius of the agency.
2. Application:
Complete the Application and the Adoption Disclosure Form.
3. Background Checks:
Applicants complete Background Checks.
4. Pre-Adoption Training:
All applicants are required to complete twelve hours of training provided by Finally Home Christian Adoption Services. Adult family members are welcome to attend with applicants (i.e. grandparents, adult children, siblings).
5. Home Study Packet:
Applicants are provided a home study packet from Finally Home and complete the required documents. A home study is a screening of the home and life of prospective adoptive parents prior to allowing an adoption to take place. Florida law requires a completed home study.
6. Home Study & Home Visits:
Once the above steps are completed, the adoption specialist will contact the applicants to schedule the two required home visits and complete the home study. Once the home visits are completed, Finally Home will notify applicants in writing of their approval as prospective adoptive parents. The social worker will write the home study from the documents completed by the applicants and the information gathered in the home visits.
7. Profiling Process:
Families that have been approved through the home study process are eligible to have their profiles available to birth parents. Agency staff will provide you with information as to how to complete an attractive, appealing profile.
8. Matching Process:
Finally Home will begin the matching process and look for matching profiles between the adoptive family and birth mothers. When we find a potential match, Finally Home will provide your profile to birth mothers/fathers for their consideration.
9. Placement:
Placements generally occur when the baby is discharged from the hospital.
10. Post Placement Supervision:
The state of Florida requires that the adoptive family receive monthly home visits by an adoption caseworker prior to the finalization of their adoption.
11. Finalization:
This hearing will take place no sooner than one month after the voluntary relinquishment hearing. Finally Home forwards the updated clearances, updated home study, and post placement reports to the Court House prior to the hearing date. Finally Home staff accompanies adoptive families to the Court House for their hearing. Adoptive families are welcome to invite other family members to the hearing to participate in this celebration. Birth parents will not be at this hearing.
12. Post Finalization:
Finally Home desires to continue to support families throughout their adoption journey. The agency facilitates a minimum of ongoing non-identity communication between birth families and adoptive families. Families can contact the agency at any time to arrange individual post finalization services.