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Originally Posted By lizz

Graham - I know that there were new federal regulations passed with regards to foster/adoption to encourage more families to adopt giving foster children permanency. Is there somewhere this legislation can be viewed? I have a foster daughter in Colorado...the particular county I am dealing with does not have the best reputation for terminating parental rights in a timely fashion, thus children can languish in the system for a couple of years. Meanwhile foster/adopt families hang on, waiting endlessly to make a child they love a permanent part of their family. I would appreciate any info you could give me. Thanks. lizz

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Originally Posted By Graham

Hi Lizz,
Hop on over to http://www.cwla.org/cwla/publicpolicy/pl105-89.html where you you find all you need. I'm surprised to hear about your experience in Colorado. Your state has had a couple of law suits that speeded up adoptions and provided for postadoption services. It's always worth a call to your state legislator, or a visit to his or her office, to inquire why children are waiting? Just a hint.
Graham.

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Originally Posted By lizz

Thanks. I think that much of Colorado is doing what it is suppossed to....mostly Denver seems to have judges that need to be educated....bio-parents that are drug addicts and not trying to rehab, probably will not be good custodial parents. Had thought of writing govenor, but hear nightmare stories of foster families then being black-listed. I really do not want to lose my foster daughter as she is a real part of our family. Thanks for the web site. lizz

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Originally Posted By yrand

Lizz I'm in Colorado too and Denver's not as bad as the county
I'm in. Either they rush to place without reviewing other families homestudies like my first inquiry or take their own sweet time for weeks after termination like my present inquiry. I'm like you I don't want to be blacklisted but what recourse do we have? I thought of emailing or calling my local
congressman but what can they do? The worker for these girls
says she wants to put them on tv and they've been online for
weeks. They've already had over thirty families apply plus me
and I'm wondering what the hell is the hold up what are they looking for Mother Theresa?

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Originally Posted By Mara

My husband and I've completed our homestudy with foster care. The adoption resource center in New Jersey says there is an 8 year wait for girls between the ages of 5 and 10. We have the room to accept siblings (girls). We have one 10 year-old son. I was informed that the homestudy for foster care was not acceptable for interstate adoptions. If this is so, how else can we find affordable ways to increase the love to share in our family?