Adoption Grants may be a resource worth looking into for financial assistance in helping defer expensive adoption costs. They can help when you have tried every possible infertility treatment with no positive results and now you have decided to adopt but your monetary resources are depleted. In general, adoptive families do not have to pay back any funds that are received from a grant program. Prospective parents applying to a particular grant program must usually meet certain criteria established by that association.
Although each organization has its own grant requirements, there are some common stipulations that many programs might consider when reviewing a grant request. Often when an application is submitted, grant programs may check to make sure that you really need financial aid. They may determine whether or not you have first exhausted your own assets. Next they might try to ascertain if you are earnest in your desire to go ahead and complete the adoption process. Some require that the home study has been approved at the outset before they will consider issuing the grant.
Every organization handles awarding of adoption grants in their own way. Some have...