How do you get involved with doing adoption home studies in Arkansas?

Question

I live in NW ARkansas and am stay at home mom with Masters degree in Human Development & Family Science and would like to do home studies in the evenings for supplemetal income but have been unsucessful in finding helo with this.

Answer 1

I would start by working with CASA or CPS or contact adoption agencies.  But like when my son had one done he needed someone with alot of experice for court (his child was gave away through adoption and he is fighting to get his son returned)   So start there.. Good Luck

Answer 2

I think you may need to have a Masters of Social Work (MSW) to contract privately to do homestudies.  For our homestudy, we went through a small company that only did homestudies, post placement reports, and faciliated the legal re-adoption in the US of internationally adopted children.  I asked about their credientials and licensing and was told that in our state at least, an MSW was required to work in this fashion.  I don't know if your master's degree fills the requirements or not.