Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 18 - HUMAN SERVICES
Part 6 - Division of Family and Children's Services
Chapter 1 - DFCS Policy Manual
Section 18-6-1-G - Adoption Policy
ADOPTION ASSISTANCE
Section 18-6-1-G-XII - APPENDICES
Appendix 18-6-1-G-XII-G - Adoption Addendum
* Household members, sleeping arrangements, and safety equipment in the home
* Changes since the last home re-evaluation
* Adoption Issues Training
* Adoptee's personality, school adjustments, and emotional ties to the foster family
* Child's Special needs and certification of adoption assistance
* Resource Parents' understanding of the child's special needs and plans to meet these needs permanently
* Resource Parent's realistic goals for the child
* Resource Parent's lifetime commitment and contingency plan
* Resource Parent's monthly income, monthly expenses and etc.
* Resource Parent's need for adoption assistance (Child on SSI?)
* Efforts made to place the child without adoption assistance
* Discipline used by the Resource Parent
* Presentation of the background information on the child to the Resource Parents
* Plan to maintain sibling contact with children who are not placed in this home and with other significant people in the child's life
* Information regarding other children residing in the home, (ages, grade, personality -birth, foster, adopted or relative's children)
* Interaction among all household members
* Interview all children privately
* Feelings of other children in the home about this pending adoption
* Children's description of family rules and discipline
* Adoptee(s) understanding of adoption
* Adoptee(s) feelings about being a part of this family forever
* Changes expected by finalizing this adoption
* Child's understanding of roles of the birth parents/adoptive parents
* Items child has from birth family
* Adoption Specialist's recommendation and ASWS approval
