Adopt a ChildChildren need a home to call their own. Visit AdoptUSKids to acquire more nigh adults who accept accepted the call to adopt or get a foster family.

How to Adopt a Child Through Foster Care

Step ane – Contact

Contact the Foster/Adoption Information Hotline at i-800-821-9157 to obtain additional data.  If you would like to inquire about a child featured on the Mississippi Centre Gallery or AdoptUSKids, please email  adoptms.kids@mdcps.ms.gov .

Step two – Awarding

Once your application has been received, it will be evaluated to determine if y'all see the minimum requirements (such as age, length of marriage, sufficient income). Yous may exist placed on a waiting list.

Step 3 – Training Sessions

If nosotros are able to go along with your awarding, you will be invited to nourish a serial of five weekly training sessions. The sessions embrace topics such as how children come up into our custody, how to explain adoption to a child, understanding the process of separation and attachment, child development, and how to manage behavior.

Footstep 4 – Habitation Written report

Y'all volition be asked to participate in a series of interviews with a social worker. These interviews allow you and your social worker the opportunity to hash out practical likewise every bit emotional factors surrounding adoption. The habitation study helps y'all and your social worker determine if y'all and your family are fix to foster to adopt and what type of child would best fit into your family.

Stride five – Pre-Placement

Placement begins with brusk visits between yous and the kid and are gradually extended to overnight visits. When the social worker, the kid, and you experience everyone is ready, arrangements will exist fabricated for placement in your home.

Step 6 – Mail service-Placement

Once a kid is placed in your home, your social worker will visit several times to help you and your child with the adjustment process. These visits will continue for a minimum of vi months until we can recommend the adoption be finalized by the courtroom.

Footstep vii – Adoption Finalization

You may choose any attorney you lot wish to correspond you during the adoption proceedings in courtroom. If you cull to hire a individual attorney, MDCPS volition reimburse non-recurring adoption expenses (court cost, chaser fees, and revised birth certificate) upwards to $600 per child.

Adoption Assistance

Applicants who adopt children with special needs are eligible to receive financial aid until the child comes of age. A special-needs kid is defined as whatsoever child two years of age or older; sibling groups of two or more; children with emotional, mental, or physical needs; or children with chronic medical conditions.

Cost: The Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services does non charge whatever fees for its adoption services.

Who Can Foster to Adopt?

Requirements for Fostering to Adopt:

  • Legally unmarried persons or legally married couples

  • Applicants who are at least 21 years one-time

  • Families and individuals whose income and insurance are sufficient to meet the additional needs of an adopted child

  • Individuals who meet accepted emotional, intellectual, and psychological standards to be proficient parents