1. Objectives Understand process of an adoption through the Department of Family and Protective Services Provide information allowing all participants to work collaboratively to consummate an adoption quickly and smoothly.

2. Team Work ˈ tēm ˌ wərk/ noun: teamwork; noun: team work the combined action of a group of people, especially when effective and efficient.

3. Team Effective and Efficient

4. Group of People

5. Judge

6. Judge Training

7. Types of Adoption Kinship/Relative Family Foster Adopt Family Recruited Foster/Adopt Family Recruited Adopt Family

8. Steps to Adoption Termination of All Parents’ Rights Completing the HSEGH (Health, Social, Educational and Genetic History) Adoption Readiness Summary Assessing Child’s Readiness Preparing the Child Selecting a Family

9. Steps (Continued) FBI Fingerprint Check/Results Copy of Redacted File Presentation Staffing Visits Placement

10. Steps (Continued) Eligibility Open the Home (FAD) Negotiate Subsidy Collaborate with Adoption Attorney Setting Adoption Hearing Consummation

11. Home Study Steps Home Study Kinship Home Study Foster Family Home Study Foster Adopt Home Study Adoption Home Study Approved Adoption Home Study

12. Most Important Step Pay the Adoption Attorney

13. Road to Consummation (When things go Right)

14. Or (When Things Don’t)

15. Slow Going

16. ICWA ICPC Slow Relatives Placement Breakdowns

17. Best

18. FAD/CPA Steps Minimum Standards (376 Pages) –62 Individual Steps/Requirements Texas Administrative Code (21 Subchapters) Adoption (Six Subchapters) DFPS Policy (Section 6000 Substitute Care) – 345 Subsections, 130 pages –Adoption Policy (55 pages)

19. Forms 87 FAD forms 33 Post Adopt forms 32 Form Categories Adoption Best Practice Guide –https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/download/schedul e/ib6fjlfohmml

20. Putting Together a Puzzle

21. Scavenger Hunt

22. Innovative Strategies Families Licensed/Verified During TMC Looking Back at Family Members Enhanced Recruiting

23. Risk Assessment TAC RULE §745.651 Foster or Adoptive Placements: Criminal History Requirements; A person currently on parole for a felony offense. For any felony offense that is not specifically enumerated in the relevant chart listed in subsection (a) of this section, a person convicted within the past 10 years for the offense must have an approved risk evaluation prior to being present at the operation. Substantially similar federal offenses and offenses in other states will be treated the same as the similar Texas offense.

24. The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997 amended title IV-E (42 U.S.C. 671(a)(20) The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-248) Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA)

25. 2008-2016

26. With Your Help In 8 years 1235 Adoptions

27. Thank You