[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.

[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.