A follow-up on private versus public agencies
I just wanted to give a follow-up on my earlier post regarding private versus public agencies. If you are on the fence about making a choice I would absolutely recommend the private route. My Adoption Specialist has been amazing. Although I did a lot of work on my own sending out studies, following up with workers, etc. things have gone very well for us despite a delay with getting the initial file for the kiddos. Once we accepted the placement both my AS and the kids AS worked together to get things expedited, so the kiddos can come home to us this weekend. We only started our HS in March, so I think this is relatively fast as a timeline. The other thing I wanted to point out is that my DH and I didn't have to take any classes although we did online education. Our ICPC was approved in 9 days by both States which I think is very fast. The other thing that worked well for us was a photo album of 20-30 photos that you can e.mail to a Worker. Giving them the visual on you along with your HS was very effective.
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