Home Study Services in Kentucky
Adopting in Kentucky? AGCI is licensed to provide home study only services for families residing in Kentucky.
ADOPTING IN KENTUCKY
HOME STUDY SERVICES
ADOPTING IN KENTUCKY?
If you’re adopting a child and live in Kentucky, All God’s Children International is licensed to provide your home study or post-placement reports—regardless of whether or not you are adopting through AGCI! To date, AGCI has helped unite over 63 families in Kentucky with their adopted children! Fill out the form to the right to get started.
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WHY AGCI?
WHY AGCI?
Families do not need to adopt through AGCI in order to utilize our home study services. We are a Hague accredited agency with experience working in 24 countries over the past 26 years. With AGCI, there’s never a “backlog.” We’re committed to completing every home study in six months or less and our services can even be expedited if needed (additional fees apply). We structure our process in a way that coordinates education and paperwork with anticipated completion time—our social workers are available without additional wait time. Working with AGCI also means unparalleled post adoption support. We are committed to providing a premium level of support to each and every family we work with.
HOME STUDY ONLY SERVICES
AGCI provides direct home study services to Kentucky families completing an adoption through another placement agency. By choosing AGCI for your home study only services, you’ll enjoy the following benefits:
Experience
With over 25 years of adoption experience, we’ve united more than 3,100 children with their forever families. Our home study providers also complete every home study to Kentucky state and Hague standards.
International Expertise
Our international experience is apparent. We’ve worked with adoption officials in the following 24 countries:
Bulgaria | Burundi | China | Colombia | Ethiopia | Ghana | Guatemala | Haiti | Hungary | India | Kazakhstan | Macedonia | Mexico | Nepal | Philippines | Romania | Russia | Rwanda | South Africa | Taiwan | Uganda | Ukraine | U.S. | Vietnam
Program Reliability
We’ll work with your placing agency to make sure all Kentucky state and program requirements are met upon placement of your child in your home.
HOME STUDY PROCESS
HOME STUDY PROCESS
STEP ONE Submit your Application
Please fill out a Free Pre-App to determine if you meet AGCI eligibility requirements. Once approved and contracted, the home study process can begin!
STEP TWO Home Study Paperwork
Once contracted with AGCI, the home study process can begin. A home study typically takes between 3-4 months to complete. Over this period of time, a social worker will collect required home study documents including local criminal and background checks. After all documents are received, an AGCI Kentucky social worker will conduct family interviews in your home. These interviews last a minimum of six hours on two separate visits. Once home study interviews are complete, a comprehensive report will be written by your social worker. AGCI will submit the completed home study to your placing agency for review and finalization.
STEP THREE Post Adoption Visits
Once your child is home, post-adoption visits will be scheduled according to placing agency and program specific requirements.
FEES
HOME STUDY FEES
| Application Fee | $400 |
| AGCI Home Study | $2500 |
| Home Study Update / Addendum (text change, minor change, no home visit required) | $400 |
| Home Study Update (with visit and/or extensive changes) or Program Conversion Home Study | $900 |
ADDITIONAL COSTS
AGCI has a service area of 40 miles (round trip) from our office or nearest social worker in each state. Families will be billed for mileage outside of the service area. Families will be responsible for additional travel fees (i.e., travel time, airfare, hotel, meals, etc.).
POST-ADOPTION REPORT
| Single child, per report (# of reports varies by program requirements) | $400 |
| Multiple children, per report, one home visit First Child Fee | $400 |
| Additional Child Fee | $225 |
MISC. POST-ADOPTION REPORT NO VISIT
| First Child Fee | $200 |
| Additional Child Fee | $100 |
MILEAGE
$0.50 per mile after 40 miles round trip.
TRAVEL TIME
$15 per hour, after two hours of travel round trip.
ADOPTIVE PARENT EDUCATION
We require that all adoptive parents complete training courses through Families Are Forever to begin home study visits. These courses are available online for a cost of approximately $300 per family, per adoption.
“AGCI was always quick to answer our questions and address our concerns. They walked us through each and every step of the process, and we never felt alone. We appreciated the balance of realism and optimism. They were always very direct and honest with us. They acknowledged and validated the frustrations that are just an inevitable part of the adoption process. And they rejoiced with us any time we got good news! We believe that they prayed for us and truly had our best interests and the interests of our adopted sons at the heart of everything they did. And they have continued to follow up with us and make themselves available to us after we brought our boys home. AGCI’s passion for orphan care is truly inspiring and contagious! If we adopt again in the future, we will absolutely choose AGCI again.”
— Carrie Partridge, AGCI Adoptive Mom
