Homestudy

We had our first home visit by DFCS. I tell you its totally different than adopting privately. First off, the homestudy visit is there as an interview about you to tell DFCS of your past and make sure that you are the right material to foster a child in care. Your private homestudy is more of a coaching session to you to get your home ready.

DFCS wants to know your past employment, what you made at your past employment. What is your brothers phone number. What does he do. Do you have a good relationship with your parents. Do you have a good relationship with your brothers. How does your extended family feel about your decision to foster? They really go into a lot more detail about your life than a private/agency adoption. Most of the private adoption questions are in the forms. Fill out this form. Most of the DFCS questions are both. Fill out the form and Answer the question.

The plus about the DFCS is that they provide the fingerprints to you during the IMPACT training. The private adoption makes you go get fingerprinted somewhere. We had to goto the county jail. It was quite an event.

Now we wait to find out if DFCS wants to come out again to the house or if we go active soon.