WAC 110-60-0030. What are the eligibility criteria for the department's adoption program?

(1) The department provides adoption services to any child in the department's care and custody: (a) With an identified permanent plan of adoption; or (b) When the department considers adoption as an alternate permanent plan; and (i) The child is in supervised out-of-home care; or (ii) The child's birth parent(s) requests adoption as a permanent plan prior to the child's placement in out-of-home care. (2) The department considers families who apply for adoption services to be resources for children in the department's care and custody if the potential parent(s) is: (a) Legally competent; (b) Eighteen years of age or older; and (c) Has an approved adoptive home study.