Communication with agency?

CaseyLea

We are working with a very small organization that provides adoption services along with other ministries like family counseling and such.  They currently have no birth mothers that they are working with

Anyway, the lady that was running the adoption department of this organization retired in May.  She finished our homestudy and everything in February so that all of our stuff would be good to go before she left.  The new guy started in April and they worked side by side for a while.  We used to hear from her, even just a 1 or 2 line email, every week or two.  Other than mass emails for monthly newsletters, we have not heard from this new guy at all!  I understand that he doesn't really have any information for us - and they don't tell us if we are being shown anyway - but still...  So, I guess what I'm looking for is how often do you talk to your agency while waiting to me matched??

Jessie*J

Well we are waiting for our HS paperwork to be finished right now. But I email our agency about every month or so.

(Little background : we signed with our agency in Sept 08 and after 3 months were told they were waiting till I turned 23 that Feb before starting with us! We couldn't believe this wasn't brought up before we paid our app fee and all! Anyways -- so after I turned 23 I started emailing them each month. Finally in May we were able to start our HS.)

 

Sydangle2

We are working w/ a local agency/ & facitator. We contact facitator once a month by phone for an update. We contact agency as needed when clearences/ hs needs updated or if we have any questions.

jacksjerseygirl

Prior to being matched with DS we spoke to them via email or phone once every two weeks or so. Mind you we never really did officially 'wait' to be matched - it just happened.

Now post adoption we actually still talk to them about every month and probably will continue to do so until finalization.

Do they match by a first come basis? As in, do BMs select from a pool of profile or does your agency just match as best as possible on a first come, first serve basis (for lack of a better expression)? Do you know where you stand in that pool if they have no BMs currently? I assume that perhaps they may offer more personalized and reduced fee services because of their size - but maybe there is another option for you?

Good luck! I would email the new guy and check in - the last thing you want is to fall between the cracks with him being new and everything ...

Dr.Loretta

We communicate by e-mail maybe once a week or so. We're in the midst of finishing up HS paperwork, so I'm usually the one initiating contact to ask a question or to let our SW know where we are in the process.

This may be naive of me, but maybe this guy just has a different communiation style and doesn't realize that you are used to an e-mail every week or 2. Maybe it's a matter of letting him know that, so he can continue where the other lady left off.

 

CaseyLea

wow - thanks ladies

jacks - they keep profiles and let the BM choose.  if she doesn't want to, then they pick the best match

fred - I was wondering the same thing!  I assume he may be working on other couples' homestudies, but still...