Starting the application process for a domestic adoption can seem daunting. This checklist will help you through the application process for Domestic Adoptions:

1. Downloaded and print the following forms:
   • Domestic Adoption Application Form
   • Adoption Placement Application (send back to agency with Request for Intervention Record Check)
   • Request for Intervention Record Check
   • Reference Forms (Print 4)
   • Request for Criminal Check (Print 2)
   • Medicals (Print 2)
   • Employers Letter to Confirm Employment
   • Photo Album Instructions
   • Home Study Self-Report
2. Complete the preliminary application and return it to us.
3. Fill out both the Request for Intervention Record Check and the Adoption Placement Application, send it back to us to forward to the proper place. Once it is completed, it will be returned to you. Please send it back to us at that time so that we can confirm the results.
4. Give employment letter to employer and sent it back to us. If you are self-employed please send us confirmation of your annual income, e.g., front page of tax return.
5. Give your references out accordingly and have your references return them directly to us. You should consider a family member, Pastor, friend, and someone you work with.
6. Go to the police station and have the Criminal Record Check completed and sent back to us.
7. Go to your doctor and complete the medical. Send this back to us. Medicals have to be completed every other year while you are on our waiting list.
8. Get a certified marriage certificate. Uncertified copies are not acceptable. These become part of the court package when we finalize the Adoption in court and will not be returned. Church certificates are not acceptable.
9. Send photo copies of your birth certificates. The court requires these to file the court documents.

   Note: The Request for Intervention Record Check, Adoption Placement Application, and Criminal Record Check take some time to complete, therefore you should get started on them first. Once everything is completed and returned to us, and you have completed your self-assessment, we can set up an appointment to begin the Home Assessment.

10. When you have completed this package, please call us and we will set up a time for an information session or interview. Ask for a self-assessment to complete and send it back to us.