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whoownsthis is pretty much right on. Every county as far as I know does the trainings. Sometimes people from neighboring counties go to other counties to get the training done earlier or if they missed a class offered by their county they can make it up at a neighboring county. Alot of counties have the training at different times.
Regardless of whether you straight adopt or foster to adopt it was my understanding when my husband and I signed up for our classes that you have to take the classes. We were originally straight adopt but later changed after our classes were over to foster to adopt.
I'm not sure if the cost is different from county to county on the homestudy but it cost us $400 for our county to complete our homestudy.
We have had no luck in adopting through Indiana and are considering private adoption through St. Elizabeth's. If you have a homestudy already done you can have it sent anywhere. Our case worker said she would send ours to St. Elizabeth's if we wanted her to.
I totally agree with whoownsthis about the younger children. You very rarely see them on the photo listings. If you do they usually have multiple siblings that need to be placed all together.
I hope this helps!
Chris
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