Adoptive Parents: Criteria

• The Agency requires that you be over the age of twenty-five, and under the age of fifty at the time that you sign the Pre-Placement Agreement with The Agency.
• Adoptive parents are required to complete adoption training and education prior to finalization of their adoption.
• If you are first-time parents or have children over the age of five, you are required to attend newborn child care classes and submit a statement of attendance from the instructor.
• Many birth parents request updates about their child to assist with the grieving process and to confirm their placement decision.  Therefore, adoptive parents are required to provide The Agency with non-identifying letters and quality photographs of the child on a monthly basis during the first three months after placement. After the first three months, pictures and letters are required to be sent at six months and at the twelfth months after placement.  Further contact can be agreed upon by you and the birth parents.
• You must agree to make yourselves available for monthly post placement telephone calls and/or visits until finalization of your adoption.
• Pediatrician's reports are required from each doctor’s visit until the adoption is finalized.
• Any past criminal history must be disclosed in the Pre-Application.