What We Do: - Recruit
adoptive parents
- Provide a 30(Kansas)/39(Missouri) hour training class
- Complete a certified adoption study by a licensed social worker more
What Is the Process: - Attend
training and make an informed decision on whether is foster care adoption is right for your family
- Simultaneously complete home study process along with training
- Search
for children and be selected as the identified adoptive family for a child/ren more
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"Every child has
the right to be loved by a family.” Tyree, age 14
Why Choose Downey Side: - Qualified, dependable staff
available throughout the adoption process
- Safe and confidential adoption services
- Fully licensed child placing agency in Kansas and Missouri
- National organization with
contacts in most states to help with matching process
- Individualized attention! Your family
is not just a number to us,
- Our focus is on those children in foster care who will otherwise
be left behind if an adoptive family is not found for them.
What Is the Cost: - There is an adoptive family application fee of $1000 per family
- Federal Background
Check**
- Need to have a current physical**
- Transportation (mileage)
to meet child *
- Hotel and meals when meeting with child *
- Judgment
and Decree and new Birth Certificates during finalization *
- TIME AND ENERGY
* These expenses may be reimbursed through subsidy **Adoption expenses can be applied
toward the federal adoption tax credit.
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