1.   Statewide adoption staffing.  Statewide adoption staffing, found in the STO DCFS/Adoption/Statewide Staffing public folder on Outlook, occurs monthly and is an opportunity for the Child Welfare (CW) specialist to obtain resource family assessments for adoptive placement consideration.  Tribal representatives are invited quarterly to statewide staffing.

(1) The CW specialist:

(A) brings 45 de-identified copies of Form 04AN022E, Child Profile Assessment for Adoption, and a current color photograph of each child to be presented to the statewide staffing;

(B) provides a five-to-seven minute presentation regarding the child, describing the:

(i) primary reason the child is in Oklahoma Department of Human Services custody and child's current legal status;

(ii) child's current placement, including level of care and length of time the child has been in the current placement;

(iii) child's personality, including the child's strengths, interests and hobbies, and activities that are important to the child;

(iv) the most recent visit with the child;

(v) type of family the child desires;

(vi) child's goals for the future, when applicable based on the child's age;

(vii) child's health;

(viii) child's school performance and educational needs;

(ix) child's day-to-day behavior;

(x) child's progress in counseling, when applicable; and

(xi) child's contact with child's biological family, including placement with siblings or visitation with siblings;

(C) reads each resource family assessment submitted for adoptive placement consideration:

(i) no later than 10 business days after the staffing, when there are 10 or fewer prospective adoptive parents identified; or

(ii) no later than one month after the staffing when there are more than 10 prospective adoptive parents identified;

(D) selects three families who appear best able to meet the identified needs of the child and prepares an adoptive placement recommendation for each family, per OAC 340:75-15-45; and

(E) when no resource family assessments are submitted for consideration, explores other recruitment opportunities, including:

(i) presenting the child at each subsequent statewide adoption staffing;

(ii) scheduling the child for the next adoption party;

(iii) referring the child to the Waiting Child program;

(iv) listing the child's profile on the Internet; and

(v) initiating child-specific recruitment activities to recruit an adoptive family; and

(F) consults with the adoption specialist to facilitate the adoptive placement process.