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i live in TN, and in my state there is no official "foster/adopt" or "fost/adopt", or at least not the way it was explained to us in classes. People who want to adopt only (no foster care) are theoretically only able to adopt age 9+ because that's where the most legally-free children are and where the most need for adopters is.
It is the department's policy that "the first placement is the best placement is the last placement", meaning that they are trying to do away with emergency foster care and with putting kids in group homes until they can find long-term foster homes. In a perfect world, the first foster family a child comes to live with will be the last foster family they live with before they are reunified or placed with relatives. Should the case come to TPR (in the perfect world), they would love the foster parents to be able to commit to adopting the child. Of course, there are some great foster parents who just don't want to adopt, perhaps because they feel they're too old, or their family is full already, or what have you. The department certainly isn't eliminating those people as foster parents, but that's the direction they're going in.
So, depending on how you look at it, there is either 0% fost/adopt or 100% fost/adopt in TN.
It varies widely by state and probably by county, so you definitely want to talk to someone with your state or county. And be prepared that if you talk to 3 different department workers, you'll probably get 3 different answers (for example we were told something completely different than the 9 years plus thing i mentioned when we first called). It wasn't until our class orientation and intake that that came up (though it wasn't an issue for us as we wanted to foster anyway, for experience if nothing else).
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