Common Sense Adoption Services
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Contact Information
3001 Market Street
Camp Hill, PA 17011
United States
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Camp Hill, PA 17011
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Tuesday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Wednesday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Thursday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Friday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Saturday | 9AM - 5PM |
| Sunday | 9AM - 5PM |
Common Sense is a licensed, non-profit adoption and foster care agency located in Mechanicsburg, PA. We help anyone considering adoption or foster care understand the process so they can move forward with confidence.
In addition to adoption and foster care, we also offer consulting services to help families determine which parenting scenario will work best for their situation.
Whether adopting, fostering, or placing a child, Common Sense listens first and then helps you explore the possibilities, hopes, fears, and potential challenges of this important decision. We provide straightforward and candid insight on how the process works and how it might impact you and your family. Because we are a small agency with a big heart, we take the time to really get to know you by asking questions and genuinely listening to your answers.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Specialized / Therapeutic Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
You must meet minimum requirements to provide foster care in Pennsylvania. Foster parents for children in need must:
- Be a minimum of 21 years old
- Pass a criminal background check with fingerprinting
- Have time and energy to devote to fostering
- Live in a safe and healthy environment
- Prove good health through a medical examination/physical
- Maintain financial stability
- Clear all home safety requirements
- Complete required pre-service training hours
- Finish the Home Inspection
After fulfilling all requirements during the approval process, licensed foster parents can welcome a foster child into their home. To maintain a valid license, foster parents must also participate in ongoing training each year.
All adults who are living in homes with foster children in Pennsylvania must pass a required criminal background check and fingerprinting. This includes adult children who are family members living at home.
There are other, more detailed requirements for foster homes, such as having a flushing toilet and an operable phone. Prospective foster parents will learn more details during foster parent orientation.
Once you've decided to foster, you can contact a public or private foster agency or the Pennsylvania State Resource Family Association. Foster agencies screen and train prospective foster families and ensure applicants are good candidates for foster care.
Ratings and Reviews
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Jan 07, 2022
All expenses paid is an absolute lie, amongst other information that has already been published in other reviews.
Dec 17, 2019
Wonderful staff and amazing team that have helped our family with our foster process. Everyone knows our name any time we call and are always there to helps us. We are very grateful for their hard work, working late, staying on top of things, always answering our calls, anything to do with our foster son. Would highly recommend working with them if you are interested in fostering or adoption
May 21, 2019
Love the employees... they truly care about the families and the kids in care! Highly recommend them!!
May 02, 2019
If you’re an adoptive or foster care parent, great place for you to go. They’ll easily take 40 grand from you just like most other adoption services, although they’re not all like that. Even if they say nonprofit, it’s almost always a scam.
If you’re a mother or father, and you don’t wish to have any kind of relationship with your child, probably not too bad of a place for you to go to either. They’ll help you pick families that they’ve usually certified themselves.
If you’re a mother or a father and wish to have an open adoption with your child, do NOT go here. Vile and honestly disgusting support from the staff. They don’t listen to you, they cut you off and interrupt you, and try to stay stupid things like “you’re not going to want to be a parent anyways” and don’t let you finish what you’re saying. Very manipulative and conniving, their only goal is it get your baby placed with an adoptive couple. They make money off of you for this. You should do some more research into the adoption world, and see for yourself. Oh, and if you do place your child, they will cut all communication with you afterwards since they no longer have anything to gain from you. Take it with a grain of salt, this place is good for anyone that doesn’t really want contact with their baby, otherwise this place is disgusting and foul. If you need any additional information you could contact me, or just do some research yourself. Common sense adoption is literally the opposite. Lol. “Common sense” adoption. The name certainly fits.
It’s honestly really sad how most of these adoption agencies work. Do your research... it can affect your life and your child’s life for the rest of your lives...
Jan 06, 2019
Wonderful staff who provide fantastic support to foster and adoptive families. If you're considering becoming a foster parent, these are great people to talk to.