You have to be homestudy ready to contact the workers on the websites.
We had fostered for two years, then decided to go straight adoption. I got my hs and sent out more than 100 copies. We heard back from about 1/3 of the sw's. We got MANY copies of the kids' profiles. What they put on the web is the tip of the kids' issues. We went to committee on three of the kids we were interested in. Other families were selected for the kids
ALL 3 of them were placed with in-state families. DCFS doesn't like to deal with ICPC. There's a lot of paperwork, is more expensive for them, and takes a long time.
After a year looking straight adoption, we decided to try foster to adopt again. Our forever kids were placed with us nine months later.