Very excited!!!! We had a meeting tonight with a foster agency an relation to becoming a permanent carer. We have a lot of paperwork to fill out but we are really excited that our DS will finally have a little brother or sister to play with.
We were looking at permanent care as an option to adoption. I was very surprised to find out that the rules have recently changed and they are now really encouraging permanent carers to adopt the children that have been placed into permanent care with them.
Very excited about what the next 12 months will bring.
Just wondering how your Permanent Care journey is going Lolly? It's something my DH and I are looking at, and I was just wondering how it's going for you.
It is still progressing. He have had all of the medical and child protection checks done. Now just waiting for the interview process to start. I spoke to the agency just before Christmas and they said that this will all start this in January so any day now I hope. We are going with a NGO as we felt that the support you got from them was better than with DOCS. I mean DOCS no disrespect I just think that they are under resourced to cope with their work load IYKWIM. I have started to buy little things for her in the sales so it isn't so much of an outlay when we get the actual call.
How is the journey going? Do you have your little girl yet.
I'm new to this site and have been reading stories of permanent care. I would be very interested in any information to my many questions (just two below to start )...
1) How long does the whole process take from start to finish?
2) Is it best to keep your scope open with ragard to what age you would take, sibling groups etc?
My husband and I have had 9 heartbreaking failed atempts at IVF to no avail. My sister has also offered to be egg donor but she is only 24 and I have been warned that she may be too young. Anyone out there have any info on this.
If we went down the egg donor path with someone we did not know..how hard is this?
We are still waiting for our little girl, I am in NSW and it takes about 6-9 months here from when you lodge all your paperwork to get approval. We lodged ours in October last year and I have attended the compulsory parenting course. I already have a bio son and didn’t understand why I had to do the course at the time. Afterwards it all made sense and I am really glad that I did it. It really opened my eyes to what it is like to have a foster child. I now understand that it really is a hard job and that these kids come with a lot of baggage. It didn’t deter me at all, but I feel that we are going into this with our eyes open. I am going through an NGO (non government organisation) as I felt that the support was better. I think DOCS do a wonderful job but they are under resourced and I felt we as carers got much better assistance with an NGO. Once you get approval it still may take a bit of time to get a placement. The NGO is going to match a child with us. Children with specific needs will be placed with families that are best able to meet their needs.
We have been assigned a case worker but our interviews have been delayed. We are wanting a little girl around the age of 2-3 as they have to be at least 2 years older than your youngest bio child and my son has just turned 5 last week. When I rang them to see what the hold up they told me that they had to push a few people in front of us because they were wanting to take older children and they had some older kids come to them in urgent need of placement. I can’t really argue with that even though I am feeling impatient. The important thing is that the older kids have somewhere safe to live so I just have to wait a bit longer.
From what I have worked out they generally but not always try to keep siblings together. As far as age goes you can be as specific as you like I am not sure if all agencies have the policy about the foster child being minimum of two years younger than your youngest bio or if it is just ours.
The furniture arrived two days ago and the head board of the bed is damages and has to be replaced GRRRRR. I was hoping to have the room set up by now. They have said it will take two weeks for the replacement to be shipped to us. Just have to wait, not much else I can do.
On a positive note, our agency has confirmed that our paperwork is in the Sydney office. Our CW is heading down there next week so she is going to follow it up and find out what is going on.
Waiting waiting and more waiting. I guess it is better that it takes longer as we don’t have a bed to put her in anyway.
Well it is official; we are approved to be a foster parent for a little girl aged between 2-3 years of age. The final paper work needs to be completed but I think that is just a formality.
Now the wait begins for a placement.
We are feeling really excited and can’t wait for it to all begin.
I'm curious to see if you have you DD yet? I've very much enjoyed reading your posts so far. We start our PC process in January so any info or good advice you may have would be greatly appreciated.
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Yay! How very exciting!
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