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My niece has been in the system for almost two years now. I've had her for over a year. It seems like the process isn't going anywhere. We were in contact with a foster agency, completed all the paperwork. My sisters rights were terminated, and they are in the process of terminating the dads rights. We didn't compete the P.R.I.D.E classes, due to me working afternoons, and no available classes or times fit into my schedule. So, the foster care worker told us that we could do the DVDs. However, I went out, bought a laptop for these, and they will not play on my laptop. She then said she would schedule someone to come out to our home, do to a in person, class for my mother and I. This never happened, then we get a letter in the mail saying our case in closed with them.. Now, the DHS office, we just got assigned a new worker. This will be our 4th worker throughout this entire case. I would really love for this to be over with, and for the adoption to be finalized. I keep hearing that a home study has to be done within so many days. I know our home study with any of the case workers have taken forever. At this point I am frustrated. How long does this process actually take? I can not wait until its finalized. It's going to be such a great relief. Sorry for the long post, tried not to make it long. Has anyone ever been through this? Is this normal? I have yet to hear from our new case worker through DHS. She sent a letter out the 9th, saying she was going to contact us. I called her 3 times, and no answer. Thank you for taking your time out to read this.
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I would contact your local Family Court Legal Clinic.
Either in person or by email or Certified 'snail' mail.
Ask them if there is anything that you can do to proceed to Finalization??
Most Family Court forms are also available Online.
Some states you do not need a Home Study, or the Classes, for Kinship Adoption!!
You do need both Parents Rights Terminated though!!
Pending on what Legal Clinic says?
If you Legally are unable to do anything???
I would then go to Upper Management of Social Services!!
I would also ask your Legal Clinic. What they would do if they were you??
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NoahsLanding01209
I would contact your local Family Court Legal Clinic.
Either in person or by email or Certified 'snail' mail.
Ask them if there is anything that you can do to proceed to Finalization??
Most Family Court forms are also available Online.
Some states you do not need a Home Study, or the Classes, for Kinship Adoption!!
You do need both Parents Rights Terminated though!!
Pending on what Legal Clinic says?
If you Legally are unable to do anything???
I would then go to Upper Management of Social Services!!
I would also ask your Legal Clinic. What they would do if they were you??
congratulations
I assume you've moved from a CW to an AW
post tpr, the state is motivated to close up the case
a home study is a 1 hour or so visit. they come by, make sure the kiddo is doing well, you've bonded, and all is good
my ICPC homestudy (the one to be my cousin into our home) was intense.. the adoption one was fun and easy
wcurry66
congratulations
I assume you've moved from a CW to an AW
post tpr, the state is motivated to close up the case
a home study is a 1 hour or so visit. they come by, make sure the kiddo is doing well, you've bonded, and all is good
my ICPC homestudy (the one to be my cousin into our home) was intense.. the adoption one was fun and easy
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The wait could be on you for not completing the classes. I have never heard of someone coming to your home to personally do the classes. I understand you're a kinship placement, but it sounds like they want you to get foster parent licensing before they'll formally identify you as the permanent resource.I would get the classes done and then hire legal counsel to make the agency move their rears on the case. They aren't going to do squat unless they are pushed. As far as their concerned, kid is in a home and the "technicalities" mean nothing. Placement to kinship is like RU to the agency.Again, finish the classes. I know its a pain with work schedule and all, but you will need that certificate/license to show you have done your part.
The wait could be on you for not completing the classes. I have never heard of someone coming to your home to personally do the classes. I understand you're a kinship placement, but it sounds like they want you to get foster parent licensing before they'll formally identify you as the permanent resource.
I would get the classes done and then hire legal counsel to make the agency move their rears on the case. They aren't going to do squat unless they are pushed. As far as their concerned, kid is in a home and the "technicalities" mean nothing. Placement to kinship is like RU to the agency.
Again, finish the classes. I know its a pain with work schedule and all, but you will need that certificate/license to show you have done your part.
When we had to become licensed for our niece we found some expedited classes locally we could go to. They were every Saturday all day for four weeks. We did MAPP classes here. Then the HS was two visits, each about an hour. Then fingerprinting and had to have references filled out and returned. I think our entire process was 2-3 months.
Going from FC to adoption was the easy part. They just modified the FC home study once they knew we'd go to adoption. Between the FC and nieces placement with us they visited once a month too. It took us about a year to finalize the adoption.
Biomom (hubbys half sister) signed away her rights and was TPR'd pretty quickly. Biodad was in prison so they send a letter to his last known address and ended up default TPRing him about same time. Some states only need to send a letter and if no response in a certain timeframe they can TPR by default.
Good luck!
BoysParent
The wait could be on you for not completing the classes. I have never heard of someone coming to your home to personally do the classes. I understand you're a kinship placement, but it sounds like they want you to get foster parent licensing before they'll formally identify you as the permanent resource.
I would get the classes done and then hire legal counsel to make the agency move their rears on the case. They aren't going to do squat unless they are pushed. As far as their concerned, kid is in a home and the "technicalities" mean nothing. Placement to kinship is like RU to the agency.
Again, finish the classes. I know its a pain with work schedule and all, but you will need that certificate/license to show you have done your part.
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hkolln
When we had to become licensed for our niece we found some expedited classes locally we could go to. They were every Saturday all day for four weeks. We did MAPP classes here. Then the HS was two visits, each about an hour. Then fingerprinting and had to have references filled out and returned. I think our entire process was 2-3 months.
Going from FC to adoption was the easy part. They just modified the FC home study once they knew we'd go to adoption. Between the FC and nieces placement with us they visited once a month too. It took us about a year to finalize the adoption.
Biomom (hubbys half sister) signed away her rights and was TPR'd pretty quickly. Biodad was in prison so they send a letter to his last known address and ended up default TPRing him about same time. Some states only need to send a letter and if no response in a certain timeframe they can TPR by default.
Good luck!
