What are the education requirements to become a social worker in an adoption agency?

A BSW degree and I would suggest a MASTERS in Social work or Psychology would be the best tools to be an outstanding social worker...figure 4 years of Undergraduate study, then one - two years for the Masters (if you go full time). It's a lot of schooling, but ANY CAREER that pays well takes a lot of schooling... Doctors do not just fall out of the sky and neither do GOOD social workers....

To be a Social Worker anywhere, you have to have either a Bachelors degree in Social Work (4 years = BSW) or a Masters degree in Social Work (2 - 4 more years = MSW). Then on top of that, you have to be licensed by the state after passing an exam, as a Licensed Social Worker, Licensed Master of Social Work, or a Clinical Social Worker. Different states have different requirements for each. In addition, in order to perform child placing decisions, the Social Worker has to be designated as a Level I, which requires several years work in adoptions or foster care. Then, if the Social Worker is also Director of the agency, then he/she has to be licensed as a Child Placing Agency Administrator,also by passing a state exam.