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Advantage Adoptions - OCOC is a licensed child-placing agency in North Texas that recruits, trains and licenses foster and adoptive families and provides kinship support and related services to families and children in foster care.
Advantage Adoptions - OCOC is a child placement agency that works in North Texas to place children in permanent adoptive and foster homes. The organization conducts faith-based recruitment and provides ongoing support services for foster, adoptive and kinship families.
The agency offers adoption, foster care, kinship support and parent support groups. Services described include family advocacy, case management, linkage to community resources, legal services, respite, support groups, youth activities and a sponsor-a-family program to assist families with needs.
Preparation and licensing services include training, home studies, criminal-history and child-abuse registry checks, and fingerprinting. The agency partners with other child welfare organizations for foster care placements and coordinates recruitment and community-based efforts to identify adoptive and foster homes.
Training opportunities and events are provided for prospective and current foster and adoptive parents, including multi-hour preparation meetings and periodic in-service sessions covering topics such as CPR/First Aid, shaken-baby prevention, medication, child development, behavior management and other parenting topics.
Guidance and preparation for adoptive families including informational meetings, a 30-hour group preparation component, an in-home interview/home study, background and registry checks, assignment of a case manager, and a matching process that includes visits prior to placement.
Services to recruit, train and license foster families; requirements include age, health verification, criminal-history and abuse-registry checks, FBI fingerprinting and ongoing training, and additional foster-home requirements such as adequate sleeping space and CPR/First Aid certification.
Support for relative caregivers through kinship support groups and a collaborative network offering family advocacy, case management, linkage to community resources, legal services, respite, workshops and youth activities.
Parent support groups (including S.A.F.E.T. NET) for adoptive, foster and kinship families, offering peer support, training, respite activities and referrals; child care is provided at most meetings.
Pre-licensure and ongoing training for foster and adoptive parents, covering topics such as CPR/First Aid, shaken-baby prevention, medication, child development, behavior management and other parenting and safety topics; quarterly in-service Super Saturday trainings are offered.
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