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We have already taken our MAPP classes, but we were certified by a private agency in Syracuse for just straight adoption. They are about an hour and a half drive for us, so we are looking closer to home for foster care. Our county DSS is now looking over our information to see if we need to take additional training, or if they can accept what we have already been through. I really hope we don't have to take the entire thing over again!
We are actually healing right now from a failed adoption attempt of a 13 year old boy. So we have decided to give foster care a try, rather than jump right back into a straight adoption experience. We would like to do long-term care, where hopefully the kids we foster would be available for adoption at some point. We are looking to foster girls or boys, age 4-12. I am unsure whether we will be certified for one child or two - I wouldn't mind another sibling pair, having already had a great experience with my own kids. Right now though our available bedroom space is empty, so we have to buy either a bed or bunk beds - my husband I haven't really discussed this yet so I am not sure what we will be doing.
I am excited though - foster care is something I thought my husband would never agree to do, but he is open-minded and talking positively about it now. A friend of his at work does foster care, and I think this is why he is having this change of heart.
I have a website, [url]www.olderchildadoption.homestead.com[/url] where you can read about my adoption experience.