[myelijah]

We are wanting to adopt from the Texas foster care. As far as the homestudy do we have to use a particular social worker that the state specifies or can we use one that has done both of our international adoption homestudies? Our social worker is retired from Texas CPS after 27 years. Can she do our study? Please explain to me how that works?

[TexasJingles]

Depends...

Each state is a bit different on their requirements... international v. domestic v. adopting from fostercare.

Also depends on whether you want to pay for the homestudy or not.

Our agency paid for everything except TB tests, physicals, and some certified copies of things (marriage lic./divorce decrees and such). We're with a private agency that places foster and adopts children that are with the state's fostercare system (I forget that accronym or whatever they use now).

Going straight CPS is possible too, and I don't know what you have to pay for to do this (we didn't like the CPS orientation meeting in our region, so we went with an agency). However, each office is different, and each person's personality fits different places, so... perhaps you should look into some agencies, CPS and see which place you prefer.

Good luck and welcome to the board!

[rmyoung]

We had the same thing we were working on adopting a child from the Ukraine and had the Homestudy done by a
lady who worked at Depelchin (sp) but CPS made us redo a homestudy becaus ethe requirements are different.The homestudy can take sometime so be paitient