1. Module 1
Introduction and Adoption Requirements: Definitions, Philosophy, and Values
1.0.1

2. Learning Objectives
1.0.2

3. Agenda
1.0.3

4. Introduction and Adoption Requirements
Unit 1.1
Introduction and Adoption Requirements
1.1.4

5. Learning Objectives
1.1.5

6. Federal and State Laws and Policies
Learning Objectives
Introduction and Adoption Requirements: Definitions, Philosophy, and Values
Federal and State Laws and Policies
Child(ren) Assessment and Preparation
Family Assessment and Preparation
Decision Making and Placement Selection
Title IV-E Adoption Assistance Agreements
Post Adoption Services
1.1.6

7. Questions?
1.1.7

8. Definition, Philosophy, and Values
Unit 1.2
Definition, Philosophy, and Values
1.2.8

9. Learning Objectives
1.2.9

10. Definition - Ch. 39
“Adoptions means the act of creating the legal relationship between parent and child where it did not exist, thereby declaring the child to be legally the child of the adoptive parents and their heir at law, and entitled to all the rights and privileges and subject to all the obligations of a child born to the adoptive parents in lawful wedlock.”
1.2.10

11. Advantages & Challenges of Adoption
1.2.11

12. Recruiting for Children with no Identified Family
1.2.18