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- Adoption social workers may counsel birthparents, prospective adoptive parents, older children who will be adopted, birthgrandparents and other individuals involved and actively interested in adoption.
- Social Worker provide home duties for individuals who have applied to adopt a child or children.
- A home study may include group classes, depending on the agency and the situation.
- The social worker will also visit the home of the prospective parents to interview the adopting parents and verify they would make suitable parents for the child and to ensure the home is safe and relatively clean.
- After the child is in the family, follow-up visits to the home are made.
- The primary goal of the social worker involved in adoption is to find good families for children and to protect the rights of the children.
- If a special needs doption is planned, the social worker wants to fully educate the adopting parents so they will understand the needs and problems of the child.
- The social worker will also often arrange for the adoptive parents to meet the child and will prepare the child prior to the meeting.
- Social workers work for both public and private agencies, as well as for lawyers and others doing independent adoptions.