I can tell you about the Canadian home study (it might be pretty similar) but there is nothing to worry about. My husband and I literally spent one whole visit with our social worker speaking about our pasts, how we grew up, what our childhood's and families were like, with the SW'er asking questions at different intervals. There were no inappropriate questions, we spoke about our marriage, how we met, what it's like now....etc. It was actually fun because we like talking about ourselves, ha ha ha. There was also a house inspection (several safety precautions we had to implement, but good stuff to have anyways), we had to do two police checks (one with our local police, and one with the police force of Canada), then we also had to have several people write us references and send them into our SW'er and had to have a physical and have our doctor fill out paperwork. It was a long and involved process, but relatively easy to do at each step...nothing crazy or weird. I found if you just took it a step at a time, it wasn't too overwhelming. Are you starting one or done one already?
Oh the home study - one of our case workers did not like that I had perfume on the bathroom counter ... geesh ... the other ones just sat in our family room and enjoyed tea and cookies while we visited.
You will do splendidly, my friend!!! So happy for all of you!
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I can tell you about the Canadian home study (it might be pretty similar) but there is nothing to worry about. My husband and I literally spent one whole visit with our social worker speaking about our pasts, how we grew up, what our childhood's and families were like, with the SW'er asking questions at different intervals. There were no inappropriate questions, we spoke about our marriage, how we met, what it's like now....etc. It was actually fun because we like talking about ourselves, ha ha ha. There was also a house inspection (several safety precautions we had to implement, but good stuff to have anyways), we had to do two police checks (one with our local police, and one with the police force of Canada), then we also had to have several people write us references and send them into our SW'er and had to have a physical and have our doctor fill out paperwork. It was a long and involved process, but relatively easy to do at each step...nothing crazy or weird. I found if you just took it a step at a time, it wasn't too overwhelming. Are you starting one or done one already?
Thanks, Sarah. It sounds much the same as the one we had done for our foster care license. Not much different at all. :)
Do you have to re-do it for the adoption process Jenny?
Oh the home study - one of our case workers did not like that I had perfume on the bathroom counter ... geesh ... the other ones just sat in our family room and enjoyed tea and cookies while we visited.
You will do splendidly, my friend!!! So happy for all of you!
@Sara, yes we will have to do a new one. :) I think the caseworker is going to give us a list of local agencies who do them.
@Chimakuni-thank you! :)
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