[czrfloridian]

I was wondering if anyone has experienced an ICPC placement?
We adopted our son last year in CA. Today, we received a call from LA County that he has a sibling that needs an adoptive home. We are in NC now. We are definitely interested and motivated to proceed, but we were wondering if anyone had experience with this and wouldn't mind sharing?

Thanks!

[momof9wantingmore]

We adopted our daughter in CA and then moved to a different state, we were called a couple of years later for a younger sibling that had come into care. CA was the sending state and it was actually fairly quick. The receiving state does the homestudy and sends it to the sending state. Did you adopt your first from foster care? You have to become foster parents in the state you now live in, since we had been foster parents in CA our new state did not require us to do the PRIDE classes over again, we just had to update our CPR and fingerprints. The process only took a couple of months to be approved and then we waited for the CA courts to decide how to proceed, ultimately they did offer services to the baby's father and he was successful so we never did take placement, but we found CA to be very on top of things and the receiving state also handled things very well. Just on a side note, since we were licensed foster parents they called for a 6 day old baby that we are now adopting. Good Luck with the ICPC hopefully your state is quick and efficient.

[czrfloridian]

Thanks, that makes me feel some better. Our CA license expired a year ago, and the county where we took the PRIDE classes accepts them for 5 years, so as long as that is the same w/ LA County, we should be good there. I don't have any of my documentation from PRIDE or our foster license. I didn't expect to need it so soon! We finalized a year ago, moved to NC and now we get this call! I don't think it will be difficult to get licensed here, I just know we will be impatient. It made me feel better to see that CA has county liasons for ICPC adoption placements, so that's cool. Maybe that will help. We did experience delays in the county we adopted our son from, and his 13 month old sister has been in fostercare for 7 months now. It's frustrating because birthmom was pregnant with her the last time we saw her on our last mandated visit with her, so it's crazy that we got this call! I feel like it would have been so much easier if she has just taken us aside that day and told us she needed to place her baby with us to, upon arrival. Ugh! I know it doesn't work out that way, but it is frustrating. We've already missed her first birthday...
It was frustrating enough when we were in the same county as our placement, and now we are on the opposite coast.
Thanks so much! AND definitely YAY for your placement. That is AWESOME!!!!!!!

[mommytoEli]

we icpc'd from CA last year. it was....interesting. lol. actually, they were a pleasure to work with. it was the receiving state that was a joke. CA did everything they were supposed to when they should have, and supported me greatly when my new state did not. even though i was still technically licensed in CA, i had to start over in my new state (CA can not control that, it is up to the receiving state to make their own rules for yor case. nice right? ). we had to do path, again, get all the physicals done again, and both of these things were mere months old. new homestudy, new paperwork, new fingerprints....everything. it took 7 months to get licensed as foster parents in our new state, and 4 months after that to finalize. it took that long bc of new state, not CA.