Becoming emergency foster parents

One thing to keep in mind...here if you sign up to be an emergency home, you HAVE to accept any placement they call you with. Given that we have 5 young children in the home, that was a risk we weren't wanting to take. Our first placement (now adopted) was not necessarily an emergency placement, but there was NO INFO about their names, guesses at ages, no clothes but the dirty ones they were wearing, head lice, sick as could be, etc. After they started to become a long term placement, we became more selective on what other placements we would take. If they would split it up like 0-5, 6-10, 11-18 or whatever, we'd be more willing, but we just don't have the resources at this time to take just any placement. I'd at least find out if you sign up, if you are required to take the placement. Good luck with your decision.