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jillianmb

 We did 20 hours of homework for our home study.  First we read through a binder of adoption related articles and then we did an online course which consisted of reading articles about everything from FAS to attachment and bonding to travel (for IA), and completing quizzes on the material.  Friends of ours are using another agency and they have had to do homework which involves things like writing a poem and lots of "touchy-feely" stuff, as they described it.  Ours was definitely more "scholarly" for lack of a better word.

 Did you have "homework" for your home study? What was your like? 

Dr.Loretta

I don't think so. We had to write an autobiography based on a series of questions the agency gave us. But we didn't have to read anything or write poems.

summergirl79

Yes we had to read the book Raised Adopted Children + take an online course on adopting children of a different race or ethnicity since we were open to that.

EclairAngst

We had 36 hours of training, which could be completed in a classroom or online setting.  We chose online, so it probably didn't take a full 36 hours, but close.

 We also had to write a biography, but that wasn't included in the training hours.   

kmkaull2

No, we just had a 2-day seminar which consisted of educational sessions and sessions with birth moms and new adoptive parents. 

DanielleJoe09

No, we just had a packet to fill out with basic personal information.

MayDayGirl

We had like 40 hours i training to attend, had to read 3 books an subscribe to an adoption magazine monthly for a year... So I guess that would be considered homework.

bumpuser794640

We have the usual lengthy questionnaire, a 2 day seminar, plus a list of several books that are "required" reading and many more that are suggested.

Go_Dawgs

Uh, no.  We had to answer a questionnaire and write an autobiography.  We probably each spent a couple of hours max on this, and maybe less.  We had a meeting with the social worker at her home for a couple of hours where she interviewed us and also gave us some information on things like drug use, transracial adoption, etc.  Then we had a second meeting with her where she walked through our house, and that took maybe 30 minutes.  Other than that, we just had to get our fingerprints and all of the paperwork together.  Twenty hours of education and quizzes seems really extreme to me!

Go_Dawgs

It's interesting seeing other responses.  I didn't know so many agencies required such extensive education/training.  We went through the training at one agency and then decided to not use them and go with a consultant instead, but theirs was just a 6 hour session.

srmmm09

I think that around 20 hours of education/training is pretty standard for IA. I'd be willing to bet there's a good amount you have to do for fostering/adopting from social services.

It is pretty interesting what domestic agency programs do. I really appreciated our training (IA; we had the 10 hours of Hague training and three books to read; I'd say with those books it was maybe 30 hours, especially since the Hague "10 hours" was actually more like 12). Of course, the course we took has almost nothing to do with domestic infant adoption, since so much of it was international-specific.

jillianmb

Interesting to read the responses.  I didn't mind doing ours too much; it gave DH and I a lot to talk about and we both feel really equipped to face any challenges that will come our way.  I just hope if we do IA again we don't have to re-do all the training. 

childofhiphop

8 week in class - no homework. 

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