The Infant Of Prague: A Case Study

The Infant of Prague has been in service for over 30 years. Founded by priests and lay people affiliated with the Catholic Diocese of Fresno, it is state and federally funded. The organization is ran by an Executive Board of Directors that oversee it, as it is a non-profit. While this organization helps Central California each county has its own structure; Executive Director, Office Manager, Business Manager and Social Work staff. Its devotion stressed special blessings for children and families (Kertzman, personal intv. 2015). As an agency they are dedicated to serving he needs of children by providing them with healthy families. Though even outside this organization and finding homes for these pure children, the foster care system can face problems in trying to place children. Some of these children come into foster care because they were in some way relinquished by the birth-parent(s) or when the birth-parent’s parental right have been terminated (Kertzman, personal intv. 2015). Terminations can be caused by some type of prior trauma the child has faced. Traumatic events include child abuse and …show more content…
All potential parents must be live scanned, which is a form of fingerprinting that checks to see if they have any criminal records within the state and throughout the country. Since the Fresno County Department of Social Services is involved in the decision making of where child is placed, they can also send their social workers to make unannounced visits to ensure that the child is in the right “forever home” (Kertzman, personal intv. 2015). These home studies are conducted on the perspective adoptive parent(s). Once completed, a finalization hearing is held and the perspective adoptive parent(s) are named the legal parents of the