Intrastate Supervision
Of Adoptive Placements

 

To ensure quality services and supervision for children in intrastate adoptive placements.

1. The BMCW Adoption Program social worker will be a consultant for a child whose parental rights were terminated in Milwaukee County and placed in an adoptive home outside Milwaukee County. As a consultant the BMCW adoption social worker will have a secondary assignment to the child’s case in WiSACWIS. An adoption social worker from the appropriate region will be assigned as the primary case manager in WiSACWIS when the Adoption Unit Supervisor is notified of the placement and provided with all necessary documentation. Similarly the roles will be reversed when a child from a region outside Milwaukee places a child in an adoptive home in Milwaukee County. The regional adoption social worker assigned could be an adoption social worker from a contract partner agency.
2. The BMCW adoption social worker, as a consultant, is responsible for obtaining any family background information materials that are needed, copies of the child’s documents needed by the case manager to effectively supervise the placement, appearance at all court reviews in Milwaukee County and appearance at all Milwaukee permanency plan reviews. Similarly, the roles will be reversed when a worker from any region outside Milwaukee County places a child in an adoptive home in Milwaukee County. When appropriate, information gathered by the adoption social worker should be documented on a case note in the child’s WiSAWIS record.
3. The consulting adoption social worker shall initiate telephone contact with the case manager once a month or more often as necessary.
4. If the consulting adoption social worker becomes aware of any safety concerns for a child, the adoption social worker shall immediately report those concerns to the CPS intake unit of the county where the child is placed. The consulting adoption social worker shall also share this information with the adoption social worker that is case manager. These concerns should also be documented on a case note in the child’s WiSACWIS record.
5. If an adoptive placement disruption occurs, the consultant and the case manager shall consider options for the child and make recommendations to their supervisors. In most circumstances, case management will be assigned to an adoption social worker in the geographic area where the alternative permanent placement is found. If the two adoption social workers and/or the two supervisors can not reach a consensus on responsibility for ongoing case management, the concern will be forwarded to the Adoption and Consultation Section Manager and the decision of the Manager shall be final.
6. Placements made outside of the State of Wisconsin will follow the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (ICPC).

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Last Revised: June 16, 2008