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We are about to begin with orientation and then the PATH classes that TN has as the beginning of the process. We had planned to start this next year after we moved out of our apartment and into a house, but got a call from a friend asking if we would start the process early. Reason being that she has a boy she is fostering and there is nobody else that DCS could find in the family or close to the family to take him when others already have the older children. My friend is preparing to go back to school for her last semester of college and is trying to find a good place for him to be fostered with someone she knows would be great with the child that she could recommend. I have no idea if we will even be able to get licensed in a quick enough time frame to help her out and no idea if they would let us foster him since we are in very different parts of the state, but after discussion my husband and I decided that we would begin the process on the chance of it. I have some questions, even tried posting them on the state board, but I guess they are being held up in moderation. I noticed nobody had anything posted there since June, so am wondering if the moderator is on a vacation or the such for it?
I would love to hear from others who have gone through the process and especially any who would be willing to answer questions about becoming foster parents in TN.
Thanks!
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One I wondered about is about references. We were told to bring 5 references to the orientation, 1 of which is a family member. I am not sure if we should be making the list of people who have known us the longest, known us through many years of parenting our boys, or try to find some from our new area as ones who would be giving us support locally? I also don't know if they mean a total of 5 or 5 references each?Another thing that I am wondering about is if fostering would even be allowed for the child my friend wants to recommend us to be able to foster. Right now I believe she is doing it as an informal kinship type of fostering and she lives near the bios. I am hours away, though. I know the bios have 2 of theirs being taken care of by an uncle in another state, but was not sure how this would be looked at with me being so far away from the bios when we are not close family (probably distant family, but husband and the childs father have never known each other). Do they even place foster children with someone not in a nearby location while trying to get parents to do the right things to have RU?Thanks for any info. you can give.
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One I wondered about is about references. We were told to bring 5 references to the orientation, 1 of which is a family member. I am not sure if we should be making the list of people who have known us the longest, known us through many years of parenting our boys, or try to find some from our new area as ones who would be giving us support locally? I also don't know if they mean a total of 5 or 5 references each?
Another thing that I am wondering about is if fostering would even be allowed for the child my friend wants to recommend us to be able to foster. Right now I believe she is doing it as an informal kinship type of fostering and she lives near the bios. I am hours away, though. I know the bios have 2 of theirs being taken care of by an uncle in another state, but was not sure how this would be looked at with me being so far away from the bios when we are not close family (probably distant family, but husband and the childs father have never known each other). Do they even place foster children with someone not in a nearby location while trying to get parents to do the right things to have RU?
Thanks for any info. you can give.
for references, I used close friends. Not sure how that would go - you fostering a kid from a friend... I'm thinking they have a list of foster homes and they would go down that list.
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One I wondered about is about references. We were told to bring 5 references to the orientation, 1 of which is a family member. I am not sure if we should be making the list of people who have known us the longest, known us through many years of parenting our boys, or try to find some from our new area as ones who would be giving us support locally? I also don't know if they mean a total of 5 or 5 references each?
Another thing that I am wondering about is if fostering would even be allowed for the child my friend wants to recommend us to be able to foster. Right now I believe she is doing it as an informal kinship type of fostering and she lives near the bios. I am hours away, though. I know the bios have 2 of theirs being taken care of by an uncle in another state, but was not sure how this would be looked at with me being so far away from the bios when we are not close family (probably distant family, but husband and the childs father have never known each other). Do they even place foster children with someone not in a nearby location while trying to get parents to do the right things to have RU?
Thanks for any info. you can give.