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I'm in Florida and there are photo listings and web site in the state. We're waiting on our home study so we are not able at this time to request any information on any of the children we see.
The lady who does the adoption home studies in our area told me that basically we would not be assigned a social worker. She said that when we see a child/sibling group we are interested in then we would contact that child/sibling group's caseworker directly. Our HS would then be sent to that person to see if we would be a potential match.
I met someone who adopted through the state a few years ago, and they said they did have their own social worker, in fact they had three for various reasons, until they finally got matched with their two boys.
It seems some things have changed since then. I'll admit to being a bit confused about how the process is supposed to work here. I did decide, even before talking with our adoption home study person, that I would probably call the agency about the child/children directly and cut out some of the middle men. We spend so much time in this process waiting. Waiting for classes to start, then for them to be over, then for the home study, then to be matched. I'm hoping that by contacting the children's SW's directly we can cut some of that time, and like someone else on here said, we may find out right away that it wouldn't be a good match which would save us some time and heartache.
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