[ConnieAnn]

Originally Posted by foster_bub

Hi, my wife and I did our training through SCC in Largo. Don't hold your breath waiting for kids. It took close to 4 months after we were through with MAPP before we had kids placed with us. Be persistent and don't give up hope.

I think it is funny how they make you do everything before the end of MAPP class 10, such as Dept of Health Inspection which we had done and have been "Approved", lock up all medication and poisonous chemicals and cleaning materials, Pets have to have all vaccination current, take a basic water satey course if you have a pool and purchase a ring buoy for our pool and put up a four feet fence around your pool, lock up alcoholic beverages, put up a screen in our fireplace, buy a fire extinguishor and have it taged by a company, put new locks on doors leading to pool, put in smoke detectors, both of us had to get Physicians's Verification of health, set up a room with furniture for the foster child, turn in the licensing paperwork which is atleast 40 pages of information they need to know about us and your Prospective parent questionaire which is atleast another 35 pages of information they need to know, and get the Livescan fingerprints done for a background check,which we did on Sept 7, 2006. Yet they can take four or more months to get your Homestudy done and get our home Licensed for Foster Care. I am astonished at all the things we had to get done in 2 1/2 months and yet they still take ssssoooo long!!
Also we were told that the Livescan (fingerprints) were only good for 90 days, so if it take them so long to do the Licensing we will have to do them again!!!
Well I know it will be worth it all in the end when we are blessed with a child in our home! but I just wish there was a better system for Foster Parents!!!