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I was wondering if someone could tell me the foster care/adoption requirements for children sleeping the same room with parent, but having their own crib/bed if they are under a certain age in Florida.
Someone told me that if the child was 2 years or younger, they could sleep in the same room with the foster/adoptive parent, but they had to have their own bed. But it seems like I remembered reading that the child had to be 12 months or younger...which is correct 2 years or younger OR 12 months or younger?
Fostering to adopt has been on my heart for several years and I am seriously considering signing up for the next round of MAPP classes and starting the whole foster to adopt process, but I am debating whether or not to do so, until I move until a larger place around September 2007.
I currently live alone in a large one bedroom apartment, with ample room for a crib or toddler bed in my bedroom, what are the chances that I could get approved living in a one bedroom? Or should I just wait until I move next year ?
How long was the certification process be a Foster Parent (such as MAPP classes, Homestudy etc...) before you got a child placement?
When you foster a child do you also get financial assistance with daycare in Florida? I know the child gets medicaid and a monthly subsidy.
All input in graciously welcome
Farrah
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It takes FOREVER to get licensed in Florida. It would sure help if someone running for an office would take a look at the ineptitude going on in this field!! Yes, you can have a small child in the same room with you. They must have thier own crib/bed. I also believe it is under 2. If you want to get licensed while in the smaller home = you can but you will have to have a homestudy done in the new home also - I believe it is within 30 days of the time of the move. You also have to relicense every year - so . . . it all depends on when you would like to start taking children. From the sounds of things - if you started taking the classes and doing the rest of the hoops - you might be moved before the license if final anyway. Like I said = it depends on when you want to start. God bless you for wanting to help to care for our next generation - we need good, honest, caring people to stop the cycles that have become so rampant in this country. Thank you for thinking of the kids!!
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Well finally after calling a million times, I finally got a hold of someone to get signed up for my MAPP Classes, so providing my boss agrees to let me off 1 hr early for 3days, I will be starting my classes on November 27 and Finishing up on December 2.
I'm so excited!
So pray that my boss lets me off cause the next class isn't until January and I don't want to wait until then.. There are no December classes and no more Saturday classes this year
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Well for anyone who is interested in knowing. I have finished my MAPP classes and have been fingerprinted, I just have to finish all my paperwork and wait on them to call me and tell me when my first homestudy visit will be.
I decided to move into a 2 bedroom apartment though, so I will have no hold up just incase they do place me with an infant older.
My apt complex is going to let me move in Jan and I have been informed that is when it will be homestudy will most likely take place.
I am however going back and forth on the age range and # of children I want to have placed though....
Debating between 1-3 children maximum at one time and these Age ranges under 2 only, 0-3, 0-6 or 0-8, 1-3, 3-6, 4-8 ??? I don't know. Each age range has it's share of strengths and weaknesses pertaining to how it will affect my current lifestyle and my ability to handle it as a single parent. My ultimate hope is to adopt, so I have to take that into consideration to.
Also, the age range and max # of children I plan to have placed will greatly determine the items I will have to purchase to prepare for their arrival....such as a crib, 2 cribs, a twin bed, bunkbeds, etc....
My apt. will allow for up to 4 people in a 2 bedroom, so there is no problem there...but can I handle 3 kids at once , especially when I have 0 now....
Anyway..I'll keep you informed
Congrats and Best Wishes!! Welcome to the Ranks. I would definately wait and see what "comes up" before furnishing. Maybe a pak n play and a high chair. No matter what age - you don't know what size bed will fit best. I've had 4 yro that slept in a regular twin - he was a BIG child and I had an 8 yro that slept in a toddler. He was small and like the closeness - he could've slept in the twin but didn't want to. I would also start small - not a 3-sibling group to start with - and they all have big needs too!! Just wanted to welcome you and let you know there is no need to stess so soon!!
Congrats on finishing the MAPP class! We finished ours end of September, got our visit from DCF about a week or so later, and got licensed officially middle November. Didn't take us long because we had all our stuff for them early...references, etc...and we made sure they had everything they needed ASAP. They told us 3 months from start to finish of home study but ours took only about 2 months. Let us know if we can help in anyway. We are also in your area of Florida :)
Well my FBI background checks FINALLY came back....
And I am now schedule for my first homestudy visit- January 17, 2007. I could have it before then, but I wanted to give myself a week to get settled in my new apt, which I move into on the 10th.....
I go to get my radon test tomorrow from my cw, of course can't do it until the 10th, but at least I'll have it....and I turn in my application, so they can get my references and child abuse screening and everything else..
My cw thinks I could be licensed by Mid to late Feb...and many foster parents here say they have gotten placements the same day....so I am preparing myself for that......
WOW..I can't believe it was October when I first posted.. and in a little over a month, I will be a mom...The process is taking less than 6 months....My....How time flies!
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