Home Study/Social Worker

Keeping my promise to post on Adoption in general I thought I would post something related to the process itself. The first thing we had to do was find a scoial worker and get a home study. We used a social worker that lives in Jxn but works for an agency in Tupelo. She was so nice and was willing to schedule our three required visits as close together as we wanted them. The first was just information gathering and we met at Jason's Deli. The other two were at our home the first being the inspection. We frantically cleaned our house and straightened the garage and she didn't even go in there. She better not come back and go in there now because it is back...

We basically just showed her around the house and she did our interview, which included questions about our families, our health, discipline methods, etc. We had some paperwork to do for her like providing references and doing a statement of faith (because it is a Christian agency) but this stuff helped speed things along for the Utah agency because we had it done. The second interview she talked to us separately (not really sure why). Less than 30 days later she had our life history in a report and it was ready for us to send it to our Utah agency. We started getting all the Utah paperwork ready and sent in our home study along with it all. This started the process for the Agency we are using.