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We're trying to adopt out of the Florida foster care system. We've had a completed home study for two months now. The advice we were given was to check the websites and call about children we were interested in. It seems by the time they are posted that they are in an adoptive placement already. This is really frustrating. We've sent our home study to many people and heard nothing. Is this common? Anyone have any advice to offer? How long should we expect this to take?
Frustrated in Jacksonville.
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I understand your frustration and am about to start going through it myself. The one thing that they stressed at the MAPP class is that for every child you inquire about, at least 500 other people are asking too. My advice is 1. Keep plugging along. You're bound to get a positive responce sooner or later. or 2. Try looking outside of Florida. That's one of the things we're going to do. We aren't limiting ourselves to just the Florida foster care system. We are limitied to how far we can drive one way in a day for how far out we can look though. (Think visit(s) with prospective child.) I'm in Jacksonville, too. If you need/want to talk/vent, feel free to PM me.
Good Luck and Chin Up.
Angela
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Hello,
My husband and I are going on two years waiting to adopt from the Children's Home Society of Florida.
We are approved to adopt an infant to 4 years and/or a sibling group of 2. Which is the issue. if you are looking for infants or young children, white, hispanic or bi-racial, buckle up, you're in for a bumpy ride.
It really depends what age/race/disabilities etc... of a child that you are looking for. If you want an older child of color or with a disability, there are dozens of children available. It is the "law" that children available for adoption be posted on the web. However, most of them (especially young ones) will already have a placement prior to going on the website. We've stopped inquiring about children from anywhere other than our agency (CHS). It has proven to be a waste of our time.
My advice is to keep in constant touch with your case worker. Make weekly calls to them to "touch base". They'll remeber you that way....Otherwise, you're right. You are one of many, many families looking at the same children.
Hope you have better luck than we have.
Laure Ann