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i heard that the county wants to cut costs instead of sending foster children to ffa's they are trying ALL resources first then making them kind of the last resort, my ffa said they have been real slow..... so i am just kind of curious, for us our goal is adoption...so we might have to switch to straight county fost/adopt if this continues.
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No it was easy. We took accelerated classes on Saturday (Pride training). It was 5 weeks. 8 hrs. on Saturday. We also had to take a class for Licensing. Explains Title 22 & how to fill out the forms. Pride training with Orange County Social Services is Excellent. Having FFA training made it easier since I already was familiar with the forms. Would not go back to FFA. We even adopted on 10/11/11. That process was also easy.
What is an FFA? Just curious...and I think changes in thinking across the spectrum have created less placements. I live in AZ on the Calif border and all of the placements we have rec'd lately have been from out of town b/c our town isn't really placing children; Rather, they are leaving the children in the home and "monitoring" them. That's what we were told anyways.
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We live in N. OC. We are with a ffa in LA County and we were licensed in December. A week after we were licensed we got our first placement from LA County. Two days later we got another call and it was for a sib set in Orange County. We had to turn down the placement because it wasn't the right fit or situation for our family. Took over a month to get our 3rd call and it was for a LA County. Part of the reason it took so long to get a call is our agency says they had no calls for our gender and age preference. Does anyone think perhaps it has to do with the agencies and their relationships with the county?