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I'm a little curious. Is it much harder to have an adoption homestudy done vs. a foster homestudy? The reason I ask is that when we took the MAPP class the instructor told us it's more likely that we will have a homestudy done quicker if we were going straight to foster parenting? Anyone know if this is factual? I also called a different agency inquiring about a sibling group (another county) and the women was shocked that our homestudy wasn't done yet for adoption. She said that is priority over foster. Is that true or false? I'm just so confused by everything. She seemed more with it and helpful. She told me whenever I do get my homestudy report to fax it to her and she can help us. She was actually someone from the Heart Gallery of that county. We are in Orange County, Florida. MAPP completed 12/2007.
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I'm not sure if one homestudy is any faster than the other.
Our experience was that the state did a foster homestudy first(even though they knew our goal was to adopt) and then a couple of months later they did an update to that homestudy as an adoption one.
This was because we were looking to adopt a specific child from Pa. and we had an ICPC in progress to receive that child. The state of Fla. was waiting for the request to do an adoption homestudy from Pa.
I was told it was really easy to update the homestudy to adoption once the foster hoemstudy was already approved.
Not sure if that helps any...but that's just how things took place for us.
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My experience in Hills. is that you are talking to two different 'sections.' If you called the number attached to a heart gallery posting, you were talking to an adoption specialist and, naturally, their focus is going to be on adoption. When you are taking MAPP classes, the trainers often come from the fostering side of the organization and so their focus is on fostering. Anytime you contact your local organization, try to find out what side of the organization you are talking to. If they tell you that they cover both, you may find out they do niether particularly well. JMHO