Most prospective and adoptive parents begin the verification and approval process by attending an information meeting to learn about fostering and adoption. The TARE website contains details on information meetings, and FAD staff may inform prospective parents of upcoming information meetings during the follow up to the prospective parents' inquiry.

Regional FAD workers must host a minimum of two information meetings each month. At least one of these meetings must be a "collaborative" meeting held in conjunction with private child-placing agencies (CPAs).

The FAD worker must ensure prospective foster or adoptive families attend an information meeting before they are given an application to foster or adopt.

In rare instances when, despite best efforts, a prospective foster or adoptive parent is unable to attend a public information meeting, the FAD worker may conduct an individual information meeting with the parent.

See the Foster and Adoptive Home Resource Guide.