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A MINNESOTA LICENSED, NONPROFIT ADOPTION AGENCY

Newsletter:  December 2004


Summit Adoption Home Studies
Humanitarian Efforts

Donations
1995  - International Rescue Committee
1996 - Paraguay Children's hospital
1997 - Limiar Orphanage in Brazil
1998 - Group Foster Home in Guatemala
2000 - Anonymous donor contributed to family to adopt Guatemalan
child with heart disease
2001 to 2004 - Designated to individual, special needs children
 
 
  


Preparing for Older Child Adoptions


For parents considering older child adoption, Summit Adoption Home Studies believes in  realistic preparation and viewpoints regarding the challenges
as well as the rewards of parenting of children of all ages and backgrounds. 

We walk the talk in terms of first hand knowledge of adoption and parenting issues
with special needs of an older child, if that is your adoption plan, as we know that child has not had your love and care from an early age.

There are many helpful sources on the topic as well as you will be discussing this in-depth with  your social worker during the home study process and as you learn about the child referral process with your child referral agency.

No children come with guarantees, whether born to parents or arriving to parents through adoption.  However, better preparation and knowledge will increase your ability to assess your situation both before you proceed with the adoption and after you have made the commitment to a particular child.   Your  education before adoption will support you in coping with challenges that may or may not arise after your child has arrived.






ICPC for Domestic Adoptions

What is Interstate Compact for Domestic Adoptions?
For domestic adoptions,  the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC) is an agreement among all fifty states that coordinates the movement of children across state lines for the purpose of placement in foster care, adoptive homes, group homes, residential treatment centers, or on a trial basis with a parent. This uniform law was enacted by all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Virgin Islands to ensure the children placed across state lines have the same protections that children within state lines have.  You can be a Minnesota resident where your home study is done and your child can be born in a different state.  The ICPC office of the sending state (where your child is born) sends documents including your home study, your agency application form and your family fact sheets as well as the child's documents to Minnesota ICPC office (receiving state) and Minnesota gives approval so you can come home with your child after the legal process is in place for your adoption.  Summit Adoption Home Studies can assist in explaining this process as well as your child referral service if your  child is born in another U.S. state.  If your child is born in Minnesota, this is not needed.  For both adoptions, other legal steps may require the assistance of legal counsel knowledgable about the laws of the child's state and Minnesota 's laws.  There are many domestic adoptions involving ICPC throughout the U.S.




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