Homestudy meeting number???

(yes, 6th attempt--1 visit interrupted by social worker, social worker missed 2, had 2 meetings with dh and 6th one by myself. If all goes as planned 2 more meetings to go--one with dh and final one with whole family).

Today I had my meeting with the social worker and it was primarily gathering biographic information—where I was born, where I went to school, where I have worked etc, as well as my parents’ relationship, their parenting style, my relationship with my siblings and my dreams for the future. It felt strange spending about 1 ½ hours talking about myself! The social worker did ask some questions where she seemed to have already formed her own opinion. The answer was no to all presumptions, but I guess it was at the end of the day, we were both tired and something must have been lost in translation! All in all, the meeting was good. My husband meets with the social worker on Thursday, so we are moving along with the homestudy slowly, but surely.

Another low for the Foster Care System

We had rescheduled our first homestudy meeting with the Child Welfare Agency for today after our social worker cancelled the last meeting. It is now three hours after our scheduled meeting time, but he has not yet showed up or even had the decency to call us! With the dismal outcomes for children who emancipate from foster care in California, is anybody trying to get a permanent placement with loving parents for these children?

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, Is God in His holy habitation (Psalms 68:5)

We have a social worker!

The first step in adopting from the California foster care System is to go for an orientation. We had our orientation meeting beginning of April. The next step is to complete a host of paperwork, submit it and if accepted, get assigned a social worker to do your homestudy. After a seven week wait, we were assigned a social worker and we are scheduled to have our first meeting next week. Yippee! Progress!