[bluebird38]

I was wondering when foster parents usually receive their manual. Our homestudy has been approved, I believe, but we are still waiting for our license in the mail. Will the manual come with that?

The reason I say that I believe our homestudy has been approved is because I inquired about a child on my state's photolisting and I received a letter shortly afterwards saying that they had received our homestudy. So, we must have been approved. I would hope so it has took our county a year and a half to get it all done. I guess they want to make sure you really want to foster/adopt before they license you.

I'm kind of looking forward to getting the manual so that we will do things the right way when we get our first placement. Which, I guess could be any time!

[AmahMama]

In Florida, we get new manuals continually. I've been licensed 3yrs here and have had 2 new manuals. I got my first one in MAPP Class. They are review but the phone lists and support status's are usually outdated by the time we receive them.

In CA I got a "reference resource" book during the PRIDE classes - it was actually a lot more resourcefull because it was a binder and new info could be added and the outdated info could come out easily. I had no troubles keeping it up to date.
Not much of an answer - but wanted to wish you good luck on your first placement!!

[mylilangels]

In Ga we got ours on transition day. This was our meeting to be legally open. We signed papers and got our license on this day as well. We have been open for almost 2yrs and haven't been gicen the new one yet. If I need some info I can look it up on our states website. You can call someone at the DFCS office and ask them for one.