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I am wondering if anyone can tell me if their counties are busy or if many people have empty homes? If you are comfortable if you could say which county you are in as well. I am just wondering because I hear from a lot of people that placements are very slow right now. We are going to be open to 0-12 boys and girls with no restrictions to race behavior or health. We have no other children so I am comfortable taking more difficult cases at this time. I am just wondering how long we should expect to wait after licensing for a call.
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Passaic County - 1 x 8 month AA boy - goal RU with an aunt or family friend.
Waited 11 months after been licensed, which included DYFS not sending our paperwork to Adoption/Trenton for 4 months and then finding out the paperwork got lost for another 3 months. The office is a joke.
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[url]http://www.nj.gov/dcf/about/DCFAnnualAgencyPerformanceReport_12.15.09.pdf[/url]
DYFS Stats from 2009.
Passaic County: 452 children in placements
Essex County: 1875 children in placements
Union County: 591 children in placements
Bergen County: 305 children in placements
Morris County: 185 children in placements
Granted this data is older, but probably representative of placements by county.
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We are in Middlesex county and we were getting calls left and right after they got notified that we were licensed. Unfortunately we were only looking to foster to adopt babies. But we got calls for individual children as well as sibling groups - but they were not in our age range. A friend told me that you can call other counties and let them know that you are available to foster. Your agency probably won't be happy since they like to hold on to their families, but its all for the kids anyway.
We were lucky that we finally got the call we were waiting for for a 6 week old baby girl who was foster to adopt. We are waiting for her permancy hearing next month to find out if she can stay with us.
I hope you have received a placement by now and if not try calling another county. Good luck!
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We have had ouor HS done for about a year, have been officially lisenced for over 7 months and have not had ONE call. We are open to 3 siblings up to the age of 10, any race, any gender and numerous special needs. (We are in Monmouth County)
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That's crazy!! I'm in Monmouth County too and I get calls frequently. Are you licensed with the Asbury Park office or West Long Branch? Who is your resource worker? I would definitely call and let them know that you are open to placements.Good luck!-Kate
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Kate- I just spoke to her today and she said she has been getting lots of teens and relative placements. I am in West long branch...You?
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I am with the Asbury Park office. You should ask your worker if the Asbury office will call you if they need placement. I got a call a couple of weeks ago and they told me that they might place in Ocean County because they were so busy. Have you spoken to anyone in the resource unit who does placements? Your resource worker is probably not a placement coordinator. I have two babies I'm fostering right now and they are 3 months old (boy-Baby J) and 4 months-old (girl-baby M). Maybe even a call to your resource worker's supervisor? Just be really friendly and matter of fact and let them know that you really would like a placement soon. If your are easygoing, they will want to help you morel. It must be frustrating for you to go thru all that work and not get a single call! Good luck!-Kate
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I remember when started the process and was told I would have to wqait months for a placement. Well that wasn;t the case. I got a call for a baby 2 weeks after licensing. I think Kate has some great ideas to get a placement. if that fails you can always go with a private agency.
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@ DebbieDenise I am also in Middlesex county and we also want a baby for a foster/adopt situation. We went for our fingerprinting and submitted our paperwork weeks ago but have not heard one word since then. Does anyone have any advise? I emailed our DYFS contact last week and he said he submitted our paperwork and is waiting to hear back. How long does this usually take?
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@ DebbieDenise I am also in Middlesex county and we also want a baby for a foster/adopt situation. We went for our fingerprinting and submitted our paperwork weeks ago but have not heard one word since then. Does anyone have any advise? I emailed our DYFS contact last week and he said he submitted our paperwork and is waiting to hear back. How long does this usually take?
I am also from Middlesex County. This is where we were held up too. I believe the next step is to go to the PRIDE training. So maybe call them up and see if they can send you dates to start the training while you are waiting for your paperwork to slowly move along. It took us 9 months to get licensed.
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It's been our first year as FPs so everything is new to us too. We're in Southern NJ and it was slow to start. September when school starts up is the busiest period. This is based on both our own experience and from talking to others.
My advice is to start to attend your local FAFS meetings - not only are there other FPs to talk to but also the DYFS office often has representatives and the more they know you the better chances you'll get a call for the children you are looking for.
BTW, I've also heard respite calls will be up during the summer. We've already gotten a couple of calls from neighboring counties - but unfortunately, we already had plans to go out of state (Memorial Day weekend).
Long answer ... hope it helps.
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I'm in Essex, and there haven't been many calls.
We got our first placement about 6 weeks after licensing last June, our second about a month after that, then no calls until last week (and we were away on vacation :mad: we would've loved to take him)... So nothing for about 10 months.
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