China Program :: Returning Home

It will be an exciting time when you return home, your family and friends will be eager to meet your child. Those first several weeks at home are busy, and all this unbelievable excitement will be whirling around at that very delicate stage of your family becoming accustomed to each other.  It is good to think ahead a good activity for your Waiting Period, giving some thought to the type of support you may need to help everyone through this period of transition and adjustment.

We at New Life will be preparing while you are in China.  When you leave for China we will let your social worker know, and give an estimated date of when you will return. We will send you, along with your social worker, an information packet about your post-placement.  We understand how full the days and weeks are when you return, so we want to start it off for you on a positive note.

Within the first few days of having your child home you will receive a call from your social worker.  Everyone wants to make sure your transition into family life is going smoothly, and answer any questions.  A serious commitment in your adoption is your agreement to fully participate in post-placement.  It is a requirement placed upon the agency by China, as China wants to make sure that your child is loved, happy and safe.  The Agency is held accountable for post-placement, and New Life approaches this responsibility to you, your child and to China with great sincerity.  We have found that the post-placement phase is a joyful phase if we work together to fulfill the necessary requirements.

Your post-placement phase is the twelve (12) months following your return home.  It is a time when you will complete monthly reports describing your child’s progress, provide the agency with pictures of your child along with medical reports completed by your family doctor.  At the end of six months your social worker will visit you, it is a “touching base” time to see how your child it adapting to their new family, home and your family's daily routine. The social worker will complete an interim report and send it to New Life.  After our team reviews the six month report we will send it onto China. At the end of twelve (12) months your social worker will come back for the final visit, this report summarizes how your family has settled down as one unit and documents how your child has adjusted to life with you. This final home study will be reviewed by the Agency, sent to China and at that point your adoption will be complete. CONGRATULATIONS you are a family!