Navigating the Post Placement Visits (The Process)

About this episode

Kelly Newport discusses the final steps of the adoption legal process, including post placement visits and the ICPC wait.

Consent has been signed, and your child is placed with yourfamily. What happens next? How can you prepare for this last stage of the adoption legal process? Kelly Newport, Director of Adoption By Choice, discusses the final steps with us in today’s podcast, including the ICPC wait (InterstateCompact on the Placement of Children) and the post placement caseworker visits to your home. Welcome to the Adoption Side By Side Podcast - because noone should have to walk the adoption journey alone! We are so glad you're here!<3 ~Steph & Andrea Find us on Instagram at @adoptionsidebyside. Our intro and outro music is from the creators at TuneTank - Track: On The Way Home by Evan Splash https://tunetank.com/track/425-on-the-way-home/

People in this episode

Host: Adoption Side By Side

Guest: Kelly Newport

Topics covered

• adoption process
• post placement visits
• ICPC
• caseworker visits
• family preparation

Keywords

• adoption
• post placement
• ICPC
• caseworker
• legal process
• family preparation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Adoption By Choice

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