How does the ICPC work?
The Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children is an agreement between all fifty states (and Washington, D.C., Guam, and the Virgin Islands) to safely move children between states when the children are in the custody of a state or are being placed for private adoption. The process involves several steps. In order for an ICPC placement request to get started, a caseworker (or adoption entity) in the state the child is located creates a packet that includes such items as the childs social, medical, and educational history and the current status of any court case involving the child. The packet will also include information about the person who is being considered for placement of the child in the receiving state so that the receiving state will know who they should be evaluating for possible placement. Once the placement request packet is created by the local person in the sending state, it gets sent to the central ICPC office in the sending state (usually the state capital, e.g., A
