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Hey Stacie, I have seen this happen a lot too. It's usually because they info gets out piece-meal, and that leads to misunderstandings. The good thing is that your worker calls you AS SOON as she hears about these kids, and that she is getting early info. Some case workers either don't hear about young children until they are placed, and they don't call their families fast enough. Your case worker's connected status will eventually work in your favor.
And one reason this may have happened in this particular case is that when a child that young is in a shelter, they have JUST taken them in. Older kids may be at the shelter from days to months, but babies are rarely there longer than one day. So your worker heard about it, jumped on what info they had, and called you. It takes a while for the intake people to get all the info, and some AA or AA-mix babies look Hispanic, so it was probably just an initial assumption.
Don't lose hope!
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