Records of adoptions and children placed in foster care handled by the local office. Typical adoption files include birth certificates, placement agreements, face sheets describing the child to be adopted and adoptive home, correspondence, summary of the case, reviews of placement visits, medical reports, mental and physical evaluations, and final adoption decree. Foster care files include reports of home visits and evaluations, family group sheets, correspondence, referrals for foster care, placement sheets, medical records, summary of the case, face sheets describing the child and foster home, and court hearings. Files are intermingled and are arranged by case number. Series not fully processed.