The post-placement period is the time after a child is placed into your home and before your adoption is completed. Texas Adoption Home Studies offers post-placement services like the development of post-placement reports.
Why Do I Need Post-Placement Services?
During the post-placement process, we follow up with you and your child in scheduled appointments and home visits to make sure you are adjusting well and have the support/resources that you need. We then prepare written reports about the adopted child. Often if a child is already in the home when the home study is started for a relative, stepparent or private adoption, then an adoption home study sometimes combines the post placement information into the report for finalization.
Who Receives the Post-Placement Reports?
Post Placement reports are sent either to the placing agency and/or attorney/court and/or state of adoption for domestic adoption cases or to the placing agency or child’s birth country for international cases.
How Many Post-Placement Reports Are Required?
The post-placement schedule and number of visits truly do vary depending on the agency, state, or country.
For a domestic or relative adoption completed in Texas, standards require a child to be in the home for a period of six months. Occasionally a court will waive this period.
We have a network of home study specialists who can complete this service throughout Texas.