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Chapter 3
CHAPTER 3
3.11 WORKING WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS
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4.37 WORKING WITH INCARCERATED PARENTS
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General Provisions
13.1 Introduction to Adoption Services
13.2 Child Freed for Adoption Procedure
13.2.1 Child Focused Recruitment Model (CFRM)
13.3 Adoption Review Committee
13.4 Matching an Adoptive Family with a Waiting Child
Preparing for Adoption
13.6 Preparing the Child for Adoption
13.7 Foster Parent's and Other Caregivers Role in Preparing Child for Adoption
13.8 "Goodbye" Visit
13.9 Sibling Relationship Decisions
13.10 Preparing the Presentation Summary Packet
13.10.1 Updating the Presentation Summary
Making the Placement and Service Provision
13.13 Placement Resources
13.13.1 DCBS Foster Parent Adoption
13.13.2 Private Child Placing (PCP) Foster Parent Adoption
13.13.3 Foster Parent Adoption Not Recommended
13.13.4 Employee Adoption
13.14 Referral of a Child to the Kentucky Adoption Profile Exchange (KAPE)
13.15 Adoptive Placement of a Newborn Directly from the Hospitale (KAPE)
13.17 Planning the Placement/Pre-Placement Conference
13.18 Pre-Placement Visits
13.19 Making the Adoptive Placement
13.20 Post Placement Services
13.20.1 Withdrawing the Adoptive Referral
13.21 Annual Permanency Reviews
13.22 FTM/Periodic Review for Children in Adoptive Placement
Finalizing the Adoption
13.25 Petition for Adoption
13.26 Assisting the Adoptive Family's Attorney in Finalizing the Adoption of a DCBS Child
13.27 Court Report
13.28 Adoption Judgment
13.29 Sealing Closed Adoption Records
13.30 Confidentiality of Closed Agency Adoption Records
13.30.1 Requesting Non-Identifying Information About Biological Relatives from Closed Adoption Records
13.30.2 Request for Inspection of Adoption Records for Identifying Information and Contact with the Birth Family
13.30.3 Mutual Requests from Pre-Adoptive Siblings
13.30.4 Request for Information from a Biological Parent
13.30.5 Updating Health Information
Adoption Disruption
13.34 Adoption Disruption
13.35 Working with the Family During Disruption
13.36 Alternative Placements When Disruption Becomes the Plan
Adoption Assistance
13.39 Adoption Assistance
13.40 Approval of Adoption Assistance
13.41 Denial of Adoption Assistance
13.42 Annual Contact with the Adoptive Family
13.43 Adoption Assistance Renegotiation
13.44 Discontinuance of Adoption Assistance
13.45 Post Finalization Adoption Assistance Requests
13.45.1 State Funded Post Finalization Adoption Assistance Request
13.45.2 Federal Title IV-E Post Adoption Finalization Adoption Assistance Request
13.45.3 Post Adoptive Placement Stabilization Services (PAPSS)
13.45.4 Post Adoption Child Support
13.46 Continuation of Adoption Assistance After Age 18
13.46.1 Continuation of Title IV-E Adoption Assistance After Age 18
Independent Adoption
13.50 Relative and Non-Relative Independent Adoptions
13.51 Independent Relative Adoptions
13.52 Independent Non-Relative Adoption Application
13.53 Interstate Independent Adoption
13.54 Planning for the Child Following Withdrawal of Independent Adoption Applications
13.55 Court Report for Independent Adoption
13.56 Court Action
Standards of Practice Manual
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13.15 Adoptive Placement of a Newborn Directly from the Hospitale (KAPE)
Effective: 4/15/2011
13.15 Adoptive Placement of a Newborn Directly from the Hospitale (KAPE)
Legal Authority
KRS 199.500 Consent to adoption
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KRS 620.350 Abandoned newborn infant -- Emergency custody order -- No investigation of abandonment -- Placement in foster home -- Inquiry to ensure that infant is not missing child -- Involuntary termination of parental rights.
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KRS Chapter 625 Termination of Parental Rights
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922 KAR 1:100 Public agency adoptions.
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Introduction
Introduction
Practice Guidance
Practice Guidance
Legal risk is always involved in making hospital placements, since parental rights cannot be terminated prior to three (3) days after the child’s birth. Therefore, the adoptive parents are to be informed that the child remains at "legal risk" until the termination of parental rights is granted.
The adoptive placement agreement is not signed by any party until parental rights have been terminated, and all other appropriate procedures have been explored regarding the adoptive referral.
Persons contacting the Cabinet prior to or after the birth of their child who wish to relinquish the child for adoption should be referred to a Kentucky private licensed adoption agency. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has a current listing of available agencies.
If the court places temporary custody with the Cabinet at the temporary removal hearing, the custody order remains in effect for a minimum of thirty (30) days and a maximum of forty-five (45) days.
Following the thirty (30) day placement period, the Cabinet files a petition in circuit court seeking the involuntary termination of parental rights and authority to place the child for adoption in accordance with KRS Chapter 625.
Procedure
Procedure
Prior to completing a direct hospital placement, the SSW:
Obtains a voluntary commitment order signed by the birth mother and/or the birth father, or when appropriate, the juvenile and or family/district court order of commitment to the Cabinet; Obtains the notarized "Statement of Understanding" signed by the adoptive family; and
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Provides a copy of the commitment order to the hospital prior to release of the child to the SSW.
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For Abandoned Newborns
The SSW:
Immediately seeks an emergency custody order upon notice from any emergency medical or hospital staff that a newborn infant has been abandoned;
Places the child in a dually approved resource home upon the infant's release from the hospital.
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Footnotes
Copies of both documents are forwarded to the Adoption Services Branch.
To prevent the adoptive family’s name from entering the hospital record, the SSW accompanies the family to the hospital and signs for the baby’s release.
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