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Thanks for all the replies.
We are still working thru the process. We have a private agency that is licensed in our state coming out Saturday to do our home study. It will be expidited so we should have it all completed in 2-3 weeks. We decided to speed up the process we would pay for the home study ourselves instead of waiting for the foster care system here to do it. That would be just too long...considering they are talking 3-6 months here. Also our MAPP class will be done in 2 weeks and we'll be licensed. Then they send the mapp class certification and the home study all over to Idaho and they add it to our nieces case plan.
What they are waiting on now is the permancy hearing where the judge will determine permancy for our niece. Since there is aggravated abuse she is on an emergency basis so it should go somewhat quicker we hope. They have me and my husband down on the case plan...and also the ICPC (interstate program) and her coming here to live with us in Florida. It all depends upon the Judge if he allows the permancy plan to go ahead or he stalls it. We are hoping he will be for the plan so she can come here to us so we can work on helping her out. She will need alot of love and patience and therapy for the rest of her life. Everytime I think of what my sister in law allowed happen to her I cry. But as long as she is alive there is always hope and we are going to try our best to help her no matter what. We just want her safe and happy.
Since she is in the foster care system in Idaho already we can only do it this way. They won't allow the kinship thing because she was already in the system when we found out about her. So we get to go thru the system which tends to drag their feet!
We also have a friend who is a state representative for Florida and in our district who is going to speed up our interstate paperwork once it makes it to Florida.
I just want it all over yesterday. I just wish they would have called us when this first happened! I'm finding out the system is very slow!
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