[caraincardiff]

My husband and I finished all of our classes, did a homestudy for both foster care and adoption. Did all of our interviews with our adoption SW and even wrote out a birthparent profile (just in case).

Thusday (6/26) we finally got our foster care license in the mail (after the new foster care SW "forget" to send it in in March.

The week before, we were told that there may be a 14 month old girl available to foster-adopt.
But since we didn't have our foster care license, she went to a foster home. All we know is her age and gender, and that she was taken from a relative who was caring for her.

I talked to our adoption SW on Thursday and she said she was trying to set up the "staffing." I am not sure what this means.

While we are excited, we are not getting our hopes up. We are hoping to hear more about this little girl--

I just wanted to check since I haven't been on this message board in a while!

[Withay]

Congratulations on getting your license.

Staffing can mean different things in different departments. I know that when my cw talk about 'staffing' it means they are trying to get the goal changed to tpr from ru. When my certifier goes to staffing it can mean that they are trying to decide whether or not to move a child from their current foster home to another one. In your case, I would imagine that they are talking about changing the goal to tpr.

Good luck.

[MilehighDad]

In Missouri, the staffing meeting is where they decide who to select for an adoptive placement. They have a formal process where eligible homestudies are submitted, then they narrow them down to the four best matches, then they hold a staffing to select the match. They use this process for TPR'd kids and for legal risk adoptive placements. Colorado and California don't use that term at all. So, I realize that you still don't know what it means! Good luck and congrats on getting the license issue fixed!

[carlychan]

I haven't heard the term "staffing" in CA either. It sounds like they have a little girl and trying to put her into a concurrent home. When that happened for us we didn't actually know we were included. We just got the call for our FS. They said it was "between you and one other family." We had our license only 2 weeks and he was placed with us. I hope you are "the one" and have a placement soon!

[caraincardiff]

Thanks for your replies. Hopefully, we will hear in the next few days. I will let you know!

Cara

[triciansil]

in AZ a staffing is when they choose a forever family for child/children

[caraincardiff]

Adoption update! I talked to Natalie, our adoption social worker, and they are trying to get all the 14-month-old little girl's paper work and documents together. Then we will have a telling.

Here is what Natalie has told us so far:

She is of Egyptian descent
She meets all the developmental markers for a 14 month old
Her grandmother is LDS (Mormon)
Her mom is schizophrenic
She was living with a relative (and that living situation imploded.