If adopting through foster care can you adopt in out of state foster homes?

HappyMomAnna

Yes, typically the state you live in will ask you to review and consider all of the children in your own state first--and then after a period of time usually 6 months to a year if your family is still waiting for a Match allow a more wide search to take place.

Yes, if it is a relative in foster care in another state.

There is more paperwork and agreements to be made between the states called an ICPC which adds time on the process.

Oregon is know as a great state to adopt From and takes great care in finding the right match for the Children in the state regardless of where they will be placed. Oregon has great expereince with the ICPC issues and is known to have one of the lowest rates for disruptions/disoultions of the adoptions of foster children from their state.

If you should happen to stumble onto a photolisting of a child In Oregon Do Not Contact the childs worker directly as they will Not speak to interested parents Until they have reviewed the home study and spoken to the interested parents case worker.
***ETA--I answered fast so I could cook dinner but wanted to add because my answer was a little unclear:

It's hard to answer your Q without a little more info: Often out of state placements happen if you are a relative of a child in a foster home in another state.
Sometimes it's possible to adopt "specific" children in foster care in another state if you are related or the children have formed a connection with you.
No matter what however, YOUR end of things is handled by Your state. So, any child you would adopt from Foster Care would require you to work with your own state and county office.
Any child placed with you from any state FC will include a period of time from placement to adoption where Your local DHS would be required to provide post placement supervision until the adoption is finale and children leaving FC will continue to be covered under Medicaid or State Health insurance until 18 or 21. That is where the ICPC paperwork is required.

If you are in the early stages of the process you might be looking at internet lisings of children in your own state and think there are Not very many free for adoption. That's the problem with internet listings because it makes it appear there are very few children to even adopt.
The fact is, that sadly when any child is listed publicly on the Internet it is really the last resort to find a family for the child. These children are nearly always those who are Wards of the state meaning the whole process has been completed and they have No Person with parental rights.
Many states do what they can to avoid the last few steps to terminate parental rights UNTIL they have found adoptive placements for them. Meaning they look high and low for families and once found they complete the process. It is not good for all of these children in the system to have the State as their only parents. They get lost when there are too many.
So, families who take the steps to become approved for Adoption will be given Information about children who are one step away from being legally free.
In our state at the time we found only 12 or 13 children listed publically on the internet. When we were approved we CRIED because we were given access to the binders filled with page after page of children one step away. There were at least 500.
They do not publicize these children because they technically still have parents and due to confiendiality No One knows about them except the State, caseworkes and approved families.
It is easy to think there are not many children if you only have access to those publicized. If this is the root of this question know that for every child you do see there are 100 more no one knows about unless they are approved to be considered as a family for them.
Don't let the LACK of children you see from your state publicized cause you to believe there are Not very many to consider in your state. It doesn't work that way.
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nice

Yes you can...

nighteam

Yes you are able to adopt from out of state. It is a slightly longer process at times because of ICPC review but not too long. Both of our children are from different states. One we found on adoptuskids the other we were chosen by a task force on hard to place children in the state we adopted from.

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