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Wow, this has been a long journey for us. We started with one agency 2 years ago- got through all of the paperwork and they dropped the ball when it came time to take classes. We switched agencies and had to start all over again - that decision was made in May of this year (2013) - we had our first visit that day. Classes are only every so often here so we had to wait until July to take our classes that took 9 weeks. Final homestudy and inspection was last week- and everything is good. She sent our paperwork off to be approved on the 5th of October and told us that our license should arrive in a week and a half or 2 weeks. Sheeewww! Licensed for 3, already have 3 bio boys (13, 13, and 11). Excited to get started. :) :clap:
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Congrats. We are almost where you are. Just waiting on our interstate CPS check then the homestudy gets sent in for approval. I think I might go nuts the next few weeks waiting. We tried to get licensed for more than 2 but they wouldn't let us the first time around. Best I could do was talk LW into 2 open foster beds and 1 open for respite lol. I can't wait to have little ones running around. Good luck to you! :rockband:
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Good luck!
Once you get your license, your licensing agency will put you on the open beds list. You'll receive calls for available kids that fit your age range. You'll probably say, yes!! They will say, okay, great! They forward that information on to CPS... You will either hear from CPS or you will hear NOTHING!!! If you hear nothing, they have been placed with someone else. If CPS calls you, you should be getting placed with the child and they will make arrangements with you.
It's a waiting game!
We got our license on the 18th- we have had 2 calls but turned one down. The other is for respite Nov 4th through Nov 11th. We said yes to that. Our agency did call us for 3 siblings the first night that we had our license we said yes but they went to family - our agency was very good at calling us an hour later and letting us know this is what happened.
:) Have a good day!
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