The Grandparent/Relative Caregiver Project trains private attorneys to conduct adoptions for the growing number of grandparents and other relatives who are raising children in the place of absent or deceased parents. Relative caregivers, many of whom are retired and living on fixed incomes, often struggle to care and provide for the new members of the household. Through an adoption, many of the problems the relative caregivers face, such as enrolling children in school and obtaining adequate medical care for the children, can be remedied. This training will provide you with the information and forms needed in an adoption from the first meeting with the client through the final adoption hearing. A typical relative adoption takes about 25 hours of work over a 6-month period.