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Our agency told us that the county has cut back and is placing with family cause of the budget cuts.
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this is not true in riverside county. there are SO SO SO many children in care that need foster homes that MANY children are languishing in shelter homes for over 6 months...when this is supposed to be a short term emergency placement. homes are at capacity all over. the shelter home my son was in had FIVE babies....all for over 6 months! she had to hire someone to come in and help her! when i went to my adoption classes...i think it was in may or june......the county workers said they had been "raining babies," and were running out of places to put them, and that there were so many hospital relinquishments lately that they were having trouble finding adoptive families for these kids too! it made me sad to be moving, otherwise i would have started my #6, and last adoption right then. there ARE plenty of children in riverside county who need a home....PLENTY. i know you don't want to switch agencies.....but if you do, you'd probably have a placement, exactly what you are requesting, before the ink was even dry on your license.
a side note....even when they place with family, the county is paying out the same or a very similar amount...that is IF they can find suitable family members willing to take the children.....so this isn't saving them very much money.