Foster Adopt And millitary

When a child is brought into state custody, the child's parents are given a case plan that they must complete. On average, they are given a year to complete this plan (sometimes that limit is 6 months). Every so often a hearing is held to see if the parents are progressing on that case plan. If they are making even halfway decent progress, then the time limit is extended. The parental rights are not terminated until the parents have been given every chance in the world to complete the plan and get their child back. I have seen that stretch into as long as 3 years, although 18 months is probably more common. You have probably already been warned about the percentage of children who return home after being placed in a foster-adopt home, so that the foster-adopt family has fallen in love with this child who must leave them. So I'll skip that part. Since you're military the part I'll warn you about is getting moved to a new duty station while you are in this process. If you do, you will not be permitted to take the child with you - especially not out of state. If you get a child whose parents keep getting extensions, then this is a real liklihood. Depending on how "good" your state is at it, then yes the idea of foster-adopt homes is usually to only place children in them who are not likely to be returned home. But when child is first brought into custody, nobody can predict whose parents will work well and whose won't. To be more "sure" that the child will stay with the foster-adopt family, it is safer to choose a child already in the process, whose parents are almost out of chances. But that child is probably no longer an infant - instead he/she is probably a year old, maybe more. How long will the Coast Guard keep your husband where he's stationed now? If he's got several years there still, then you have a better chance. If you're going to be moved soon, then I'd wait until you were settled where you're going before starting the process. People do adopt young children from foster care, it just adds an extra wrinkle if you could be moved during the process.

Hi, my husband is active duty military. Our story is very long and involved, but I will keep it short. We met and fell in love with a teenage girl that was in state care. We went with a private agency to get her in our home. They pushed us through all the training classes and paperwork. The delay was with the fingerprints. In the state of WA if you have lived here less than 3 years you have to have a federal background check. At the time this girl was put in our home we were offered a baby. Now keep in mind we were and still are not licensed. We said yes to the baby and I spoke with his foster mom and set up that we were suppose to have him for a Sat. We got word that Thurs. that the grandma had come forward and wanted him, no big deal we knew that was always a possiblity. There is a law in WA that allows parents in the process of completing their license to have legally free children placed in their home, the catch is you don't get any of the subsidy for these kids. That was ok with us b/c we were not doing this for the money. Our story ends with the placement of the teen did not work, she has no clue on how to be part of a family. We had started all of this in June of this year. It is now Oct and the state has lost our licensing packet twice, then after all that was resubmitted they lost my husband's finger print card. We are done!!! We have taken this as a sign that it is not the right time for us to be doing foster care. In regards to the military, every agency we spoke with loves military families b/c of our insurance. It was never a problem or issue with any of them. We did not use Bethany Christian, but I HIGHLY recommend them. If it comes down to you are in the middle of a placement and your husband gets orders to leave here, you can always request an extension. There are ways to get around things. Good luck to you and your family!! By the way, we were offered three children under the age of 2 in a couple month period. There are young ones out there. Most agencies here also work very closely with the state of OR. They are known for not letting kids sit in care too long so they have a large number of younger kids. Check out the website [url]www.nwae.org[/url] It has a photolisting that they keep pretty current