Kinship Licensing Process and Home Studies

STEP 2

Meet with Staff for Home Visits and Interviews

After you turn in your foster home application, you will be assigned a worker. The assigned worker will connect with you, and:

• Complete interviews, both in-person and virtually. At least one interview must happen in your home and include the home inspection.
  • Review the Foster Home Licensing Inspection Checklist, to learn what licensing staff are looking for.
• Interview household members, including your children.
• Contact your adult children (if you have adult children).
• For couples, licensing staff will complete at least one interview with both adults and another interview with each adult individually.

STEP 3

Your Assigned Worker will Complete a Home Study

The home study is a report that your assigned worker will complete when they are finished collecting information from you.

The home study puts together all the information gathered during the licensing process and shows that you are able to provide a safe, healthy, and nurturing home. You will get to review a draft of your home study before it is final and be given a copy of the completed home study.

STEP 4

Licensing Process Road Map

The licensing process takes approximately 120 days from application to license.

Follow along and track where you’re at in the licensing process:

• View the Road Map

STEP 5

Complete Training within Three Years if You Want to Stay Licensed

Once you are licensed, you will need to complete Kinship Core Training within three years of getting licensed.

• Kinship Core Training (KCT)

  Learn more and register for KCT on the Alliance website