Ok we live in the mid-west. But we MIGHT be up tomove to GA in 18 to 24 months (or to another midwest state).
We were in teh process of certifying here as foster to adopot, but stopped when this move came up -- we knew we'd not get an adoption final and we didn't feel it fair to a foster child to take them in unsure of how long we could keep them -- lookin at moving ins 12 months or 24 months ... or .. well we don't know. We did not want to disrupt a placement and cause more stress to a child.
We plan to certify as soon as we get whereever we are going, GA or MO .... and start the process of foster to adopt.
So I am in GA right now, for a month,
and for no other reason that that i have been looking athte foster to adopot process in GA.
I have some questions.
In out home state there is ONE "adgency" that recrutis and trains FP and then DFS "manages" the children. The FP after training are assinged to a local office / adgency. there is no "choosing one" it is all assinged by region ...more or less the "parent adgency" is one adgency with differnt regions assinged to differnt groups.
well it LOOKS like in GA the FP choose and sign up with an not for profit or private adgency. But maybe you don't have to -- maybe you can work drirectly with DFS?
Also it looks like -- maybe -- if you sign with an private adgency to adopt (not foster) you don't do the 20 hours of training? (we'd want to do it, but i am just trying to be clear on how it works)
I am sifting thourgh Net Sites and looking for someone to e-mail who cabn help me out with the basics ....but I was wondering if we have any GA families here that can help me out.
I have no expereince with teh choosing a private or other adgency to work with ,... a placement adgency .... i'd hate to choose the wrrong one, or cost us money we didn't have to spend, yk?
We were in teh process of certifying here as foster to adopot, but stopped when this move came up -- we knew we'd not get an adoption final and we didn't feel it fair to a foster child to take them in unsure of how long we could keep them -- lookin at moving ins 12 months or 24 months ... or .. well we don't know. We did not want to disrupt a placement and cause more stress to a child.
We plan to certify as soon as we get whereever we are going, GA or MO .... and start the process of foster to adopt.
So I am in GA right now, for a month,
and for no other reason that that i have been looking athte foster to adopot process in GA.
I have some questions.
In out home state there is ONE "adgency" that recrutis and trains FP and then DFS "manages" the children. The FP after training are assinged to a local office / adgency. there is no "choosing one" it is all assinged by region ...more or less the "parent adgency" is one adgency with differnt regions assinged to differnt groups.
well it LOOKS like in GA the FP choose and sign up with an not for profit or private adgency. But maybe you don't have to -- maybe you can work drirectly with DFS?
Also it looks like -- maybe -- if you sign with an private adgency to adopt (not foster) you don't do the 20 hours of training? (we'd want to do it, but i am just trying to be clear on how it works)
I am sifting thourgh Net Sites and looking for someone to e-mail who cabn help me out with the basics ....but I was wondering if we have any GA families here that can help me out.
I have no expereince with teh choosing a private or other adgency to work with ,... a placement adgency .... i'd hate to choose the wrrong one, or cost us money we didn't have to spend, yk?
