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Here's an overview of NZ adoption:
Introduction session (evening)
Application Forms including police reports, medical reports, and two referees (fairly standard I think)
(Apparently there is supposed to be a sw interview in here as well, we didn't have one)
Then come the two Ed and Prep day courses, which are held 1 month apart, and only TWICE A YEAR. You're stuffed if you aren't able to attend one of the days at the time it is on. And it is policy that applicants attend both days.
Day 1:
Involving Shared Fate/Parental Roles/Comparison of Closed and Open Adoption/GRIEF AND LOSS
SW interview (which we had by PHONE because there were so many people at the first day.)
Day 2:
Involving Early attachment/Nature vs Nurture/MORE GRIEF AND LOSS/Trust/Profiles/Placement
Consider background to Profile doc (I have no idea what this means yet)
SW interview
Complete the profile
Enter the pool
And our system, and Australia's are apprently held up as examples of how a good adoption system should be.
And what they DON'T tell you, is that if you don't BOTH go to day 1 and day 2, you can't progress your application forward until you have. You can't have your interviews, you can't do your profile. This was the stuff up on Friday for us. We now have to wait until December and travel 400km there and back. FUMING. I am going to jump on the bandwagon today about it all.
Kat
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