Record a Home Description

Process: Record a home study

A home description summarizes the home's sleeping arrangements, the family's living conditions, the neighborhood, the nearby schools, and the family's access to transportation. While it's a required portion of a home study, you can record a home description outside of a home study (for example, for an ICPC provider).

Record a home description as follows:

1. From the Home Study Information screen, click the Description of Home link, which displays the Description of Home Information screen. Click Copy, or click Add Description of Home button. The system defaults to the Home Info tab; the Maintain Home Information screen appears.
    

2. Complete the Home Info tab.

   1. Complete the Effective Date field.

   2. Select the check box next to any floors that have passed a fire inspection.

   3. Click Add Sleeping Arrangement. The Sleeping Arrangement Details screen appears.

   4. Complete the fields on this screen.

   5. Complete the check boxes next to the members who share a bed.

   6. Click OK. You are returned to the Maintain Home Information screen.

3. Complete the Living Conditions tab.

   1. Click the Living Conditions tab. The Maintain Livable Conditions screen appears.

   2. Complete the fields on this screen to describe the general condition of the home and whether there are pets, smoking, and a home office.

   3. Click Apply.

4. Complete the Outdoor/Neighborhood tab.

   1. Click the Outdoor/Neighborhood tab. The Maintain Outdoor & Neighborhood Information screen appears.

   2. Complete the fields on this screen to describe the home where children will be placed.

   3. Click Apply.

5. Complete the School Info tab.

   1. Click the School Info tab. The Maintain School Information screen appears.

   2. Complete the fields on this screen to identify the schools children in placement may attend.

   3. Click Apply.

6. Complete the Transportation tab.

   1. Click the Transportation tab. The Maintain Transportation Information screen appears.

   2. Complete the fields on this screen to describe the family's access to transportation.

   3. Click Apply.

7. Click Save. You are returned to the Home Study Information or Provider Overview screen.

8. Click Next Task below to continue with the home study.