Foster to Adopt in Washington State

We are trying foster-to-adopt in western WA as well, and I would caution that placements are not as easy to come by as agencies and the state represent. My advice would be to ask carefully about placement and success rates. We're with a private agency (PM me for the name). We've found out that we had to accept more legal risk than we wanted, as there were so many families looking. Other friends at the same agency were recently told that they were one of 60 families from just our agency who submitted a home study for a low-risk toddler.We wanted two or three siblings up to age 12 with some moderate other restrictions on health needs. We waited more than six months for a placement and ended up going outside our initial range on both kid characteristics and risk. [And now, 9 months later the "almost free" kids are heading for reunification.]