The International Home Study Process Explained
HOPE for FAMILIES: ADOPTION and COUNSELING SERVICES, INC., is a non-profit Child Placing Agency licensed in the state of Florida (#19336300009). Our purpose is to help by providing prompt, professional, confidential and compassionate Florida adoption home studies for adopting parents throughout the entire State of Florida. Our goal is to make the Home Study a positive experience and support you in becoming adoptive parents.
Our friendly and efficient process…
My dear wife, Lynn, and I love to travel to meet with people to educate them about the adoption process and complete this necessary report. We discreetly visit adopting parents in their homes wherever they live throughout the state of Florida.
This allows us to get to know you and write your entire adoption home study report during the home study on our laptop computer. To the best of our knowledge, we are the only Florida adoption home study provider that supplies to you an initial rough draft of your adoption home study on a CD which we give you at the end of the interview! Other agencies require the adoptive parents to spend many long hours doing extensive writing assignments and detailed questionnaires. Those questionnaires essentially do the work for other agencies as you write the report for their use. In OUR PROCESS you will only need to complete a few short questionnaires, provide specific documents and identification, and allow us to view your child’s new home. We will ask you during the interview to share the necessary information about your marriage, family of origin, employment, education, finances, values, lifestyle, parenting ideas, and feelings about adoption.
Our prompt Service…
We return all inquiries the same day and try to schedule the informative home visit, within two weeks of your initial request for information.
Our priority is to effectively and efficiently conduct Home Studies and offer an extremely fast turn around time, within one month, from the initial call to the completed report. This timetable is dependent on the adoptive parents’ submission of the background check clearances and the necessary documents as per the list on the home study page, and interview scheduling. Even faster service is available at a slightly additional fee. Assuming the home visit is positive, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Fingerprint, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), Department of Children & Family (DCF), and local law enforcement background checks are clear, we commit to forwarding the notarized 7-9 page Home Study report within 21 days to the client and/or agencies, which is the fastest service available in the profession. Many agencies have commented that Hope for Families has the quickest service they have ever experienced and refer all their clients to us due to our well crafted adoption home studies in Florida. This type of service is only possible because my darling wife Lynn assists me with the correspondence, scheduling, interviews, compilation, and production of the Home Studies. Our reports have been commended by the president of the Florida Adoption Council, officials in the Department of Children and Family, many adoption agencies and we have received over 100 letters of recommendation from our adopting parents as you can review in our TESTIMONIALS.
To view a list of documents needed for home study CLICK HERE
If you have any questions or would like more information, please phone us at 1-772-429-3334 or page us at 1-877-300-8771 or call TOLL FREE at 1-866-773-3334 or e-mail us at info@hopeforfamilies.org. We look forward to helping you and welcome any referrals that you would make to us for Home Studies.
Lynn and I love our adoption ministry and will do our very best to serve you to make your dream of adoption a reality!
Sincerely Yours in Adoption,
Dr. Kenneth N. Brown, LMFT Executive Director
Lynn M. Brown Co Founder
Hope for Families: Adoption and Counseling Services, Inc. (#08060100)
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It is the mission of HOPE FOR FAMILIES ADOPTIONS to fully inform you so that you can make the best choices for your vision of family and life circumstances. After considering the previous information, please request information or ask us specific adoption questions by clicking on the link below so we can help you
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