Thanks for all the responses. I did check out thepact website and started reading some of the articles. Thanks. I guess the time frame varises a lot. I know that looking at my agencies current active members there are almost 200 people waiting but under 15 willing to accept African American children and only about 20 willing to accept bi-racial children (their are really only about 22 people the same people wanting to adopt an African American child are the same one who are wanting to adopt a Bi-racial child for the most part) They told us 1-3 months to be placed with a baby based on what we were willing to accept as far as drug exposure and birthparents health histories. There was a situation a little over a week ago that they had to advertise outside of their active families because no one met the situation. If we had been active we would have been considered for this.
We have everything ready for a baby because our homestudy was suppose to take about a month less than it did, we went with a different agencies for this who we were glad we decided not to become active with. Our agency doesn't do homestudies in our state so we had to have someone else do it. After we dealt with this other agency we were so happy to have picked out the one we did.
though I am wondering what is a facilitator? We never looked at that much, I didn't know there were ones who specialized in African American adoptions.