Foster to adoption

PrincessShay80

Everyone seems to say that they are approved for specific ages and a certain amount of kids. How does that work- do you pick or does the agency?

Dr.Loretta

A little bit of both. Your home may only be capable of handling a certain number of kids, and you can tell them you'll accept kids ages X-Y.

ctbride08

we picked the age range out of broad groupings (0-5, 5-10, 10+), but we were also able to specify a preference for a narrower age range.  For example, we will be licensed for 0-5, but the state knows our preference is for 6weeks-3 years.

As for number of children, our homestudy social worker came up with the number of children our home/family could safely support but we have the final say on the number of placements we'll accept under that number.  So,  our home will be licensed for 3 children (possibly 4 once more experienced) but we know that at this point the most we'd want to take on is 2.

lilmufish

We are currently going through the process of being licensed. We get to pick the specific things that we want. This includes but not limited to ages, gender, # of children, sibling group/not sibling group, disability, behaviors, etc.

When we had originally signed up with our County CD they told us we couldn't do what we wanted. We're now with a private agency, and so far, they encourage us to accept what we're comfortable with.

come*on*baby

we started at 0-18 months, with 1 child. then we bumped it up to 0-3 for 2 children. we only bumped it up to 0-10 and 3 children so we could get our current girls. (bumped up = amended our home study and license, which can be done very quickly.)

I think most will let you be licensed for 2 starting new, but it's completely up to what you think you can handle. (says the person who is crazy with 4 children, 3 basic level and 1 moderate, all 4 drug exposed children)