How Often Does Your...

Once a month, we schedule it, she sits at the table at chats with me a bit. No home review.

Same here. Once a month, usually scheduled two weeks out. She talks with us and then with the kids. In is required by all CW's.

I have not had a resource worker visit me in over a year! I know case workers are supposed to visit each month when you have a placement, but are resource workers supposed to visit frequently too?

She used to not visit, then I was told (um about 18 months ago? Not sure how long ago exactly) that since the child in placement was medically fragile, my resource worker/SHPS liaison would visit once a month. Then he was declassified and she said now monthly visits would continue. For our first adopted son we never had monthly resource worker visits and he was MF also.

We had a great resource worker when we first got started, then she left about two years ago and I have never heard from her replacement at all. Not even once, and we have had 4 placements since then, including the current one. We do get a visit from the baby's CW every month, though and she does not do a home inspection each time. Just the first time and then again when we switched to adoption.

Same here. Resource worker changed positions and we kept in touch, but I never heard from the new one. Just recently got a name and it's been a year. Once the kids came, never her from them. Only the CW.

My FS's CW visits once a month unannounced, but the RW also visits every month and goes through our home making recommendations on things to fix/clean/improve. We're in the process of completely revamping our daughters' room and it's a total mess, old clothes everywhere, current clothes everywhere... you get the picture.I'm stressed about the RW visit. Each time it seems like I'm being licensed again.

Unannounced?? I would not like that one bit. Not to mention I'm always out and about with the kids, they'd be pretty annoyed if they drove an hour to find I wasn't here.

Ok, so how often is your RW suppose to visit? I was licensed in Sept '08 and had my first and only placement Dec '08. He stayed an entire year. So for the entire '09 year, I never heard from my RW but my FS CW met w me monthly. As matter of fact, my RW was changed and I wasn't informed. For the first couple of months of '10, I didn't even receive a call bc the worker did not update my change in phone numbers. I didn't hear from my RW (a new one) until May when I was called about an adoption match and setting up a supervisory mtg. Now I'm told I need a set of finger prints for adoption and another set done for FP. They said that my homestudy is being updated. Now I have been assigned to another RW (this is at least my 3rd new RW). I seem to constantly get the person new to the unit and has to learn how what to do and is required for FP.

I think the first year after licensing they come monthly then quartly after that..At least thats what I am told. Also everytime you get a new placement they are supposed to come.

I was told the RW and CW had to visit within 5 days of receiving a placement. Not sure of the timeline after the initial. Unannounced? I would think scheduling would be best for everyone! :)

I know. I've missed the CW several times. Oh well, in a way I understand the unannounced visits and I think it's a good thing. The RW schedules visits. I just feel a bit under a microscope that the RW inspects my home every month. Some months are just plain disorganized!

We love our RW! we've only had foster kids here for 2 months but so far she's been out here twice, so I'm guessing she'll be out here about once a month. I think that might only be true for the first few months, though - After that I think she may have said she can come less frequently? I might be wrong. She hasn't come unannounced thus far, and I doubt she would. We have a very respectful relationship. I've never felt scrutinized, mostly just that she wants to support us and help us make the (difficult) placement work. She checks in to make sure we have the support and resources and referrals we need. She asks to look at the kids' room when she's here, and did gently encourage us to try to make the room like more of a little boys' room now that we have a little boy there (some of our decorations were still up, and nothing much that was his). We were already in the process of doing that, by letting him pick out posters and such. She encouraged us to find somewhere to store the baby stuff that's taking up much of the room, since his baby brother left so now we only have the school-aged boy. But she certainly wasn't critical and didn't look at the rest of the house.