AW:Today is Homestudy day!

[delenire]

We decided to adopt via the foster care system and My heart is going to jump out of my chest with excitement! Today we have our home study visit, and next week we have our individual interviews. Everything seems to be moving swiftly and it is blowing my mind that this will hopefully be our last holiday season childless. 


How long from when they visit your home and interview you do you find out if you are certified or at least accepted?

[gnomesweetgnome]

It depends on the agency, state, etc. Ours was about 2.5 weeks.

[delenire]

Sept 16, 2015 13:16:29 GMT -5 gnomesweetgnome said:

It depends on the agency, state, etc. Ours was about 2.5 weeks.

That isn't bad at all!

After we finished our classes I asked the SW how long it would be until we got a call to schedule our home study and she said a year. We were so disappointed. But then I called our county office (we did the classes in a different county) and they said it was about a 2 week wait! That really lit a fire under us.

2.5 weeks is better then 8 months or something! Even a month is doable.

Has anyone here done F2A in Oregon?

p.s. I did an intro about 3 months ago but don't know if I should redo again. LMK.

[ceejay]

Hope the home study and interviews go well!

For us, we did the home study visits and interviews together in two separate sessions. After the final home study/interview visit, we received our license in the mail about 2.5-3 weeks later.

[lbey]

Mine was 4 months. SW took 5 weeks to write the home study... Good luck!

[delenire]

lbey, I think I would have gone crazy so props to you for surviving.

[Rogue]

Our area does it differently and the licensing worker comes by around every other week to see how things are going and to do interviews. Over a few visits the home study is complete. This is all done while in the class. The county's goal is to have everyone's paperwork submitted for licensing before the next class begins.

[delenire]

the Home Study went well, we had all the safety stuff done so we don't even have to make changes. Since we have only been married for a year we are not as competitive as other couples in the running for adoptive children but she said we were perfect for fostering while we wait. We are excited and now a little nervous. She said we were ready for 1 to 2 kids already but if we want more then we need to add some beds.

[hootiemommytobe]

I'm glad everything went well!!!

[Rogue]

Yaya! Sounds like your visit was fairly painless.

[frenchteachermama]

So glad it went well!

[chele]

Yay for progress!

[delenire]

It was pretty painless. She was talking about what I thought about if a kid was in foster care and then PRT and the CW says to the little kids "hey we are going to take your photo and put it online and see if we can get you a family." I started to cry. This poor child! I am a sucker! lol even when a few shed tears and a different journey we are still excited and hopeful!

Thank you for the support.

[jwinct]

I'm glad it went well! Good luck!

I'm sure your licensing process will go a lot faster than ours. We started the process in February 2014 and our homestudy was finally completed a few months ago, and we're still not licensed. Our experience with our state has left a bad taste in our mouth and because it's taken so long, looking at an empty nursery and empty crib every day has given me baby fever, so we decided to put the foster-to-adopt thing on hold and TTC. We're still awaiting our license, but we just won't open our home right away, if at all.

[delenire]

Sept 18, 2015 12:11:19 GMT -5 jwinct said:

I'm glad it went well! Good luck!

I'm sure your licensing process will go a lot faster than ours. We started the process in February 2014 and our homestudy was finally completed a few months ago, and we're still not licensed. Our experience with our state has left a bad taste in our mouth and because it's taken so long, looking at an empty nursery and empty crib every day has given me baby fever, so we decided to put the foster-to-adopt thing on hold and TTC. We're still awaiting our license, but we just won't open our home right away, if at all.

What state do you live in. We are in Oregon. Seems like everything happened backwards for us. We looked online and then went to all the classes and at the class we had to ask for paperwork and the applications. Then we spent the summer clearing out the garage and going through the safety check list. Then we got out finger prints done and sent in the paper work. Got an email that they were running out background check and then we were matched with a certifier.

At the Home visit she pulled out half the paperwork we already sent it including the background checks ect... So I seriously have no idea what is going on...

[jwinct]

Sept 18, 2015 12:38:03 GMT -5 delenire said:

Sept 18, 2015 12:11:19 GMT -5 jwinct said:

I'm glad it went well! Good luck!

I'm sure your licensing process will go a lot faster than ours. We started the process in February 2014 and our homestudy was finally completed a few months ago, and we're still not licensed. Our experience with our state has left a bad taste in our mouth and because it's taken so long, looking at an empty nursery and empty crib every day has given me baby fever, so we decided to put the foster-to-adopt thing on hold and TTC. We're still awaiting our license, but we just won't open our home right away, if at all.

What state do you live in. We are in Oregon. Seems like everything happened backwards for us. We looked online and then went to all the classes and at the class we had to ask for paperwork and the applications. Then we spent the summer clearing out the garage and going through the safety check list. Then we got out finger prints done and sent in the paper work. Got an email that they were running out background check and then we were matched with a certifier.

At the Home visit she pulled out half the paperwork we already sent it including the background checks ect... So I seriously have no idea what is going on...

I live in CT. It's crazy how every state is so incredibly different in their process and timeframes.

Here's a link to my blog. This particular post describes the process for getting licensed through CT DCF:
fourplusonemore.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/a-thoroughly-daunting-process/

[delenire]

Sept 18, 2015 12:43:41 GMT -5 jwinct said:

Sept 18, 2015 12:38:03 GMT -5 delenire said:

What state do you live in. We are in Oregon. Seems like everything happened backwards for us. We looked online and then went to all the classes and at the class we had to ask for paperwork and the applications. Then we spent the summer clearing out the garage and going through the safety check list. Then we got out finger prints done and sent in the paper work. Got an email that they were running out background check and then we were matched with a certifier.

At the Home visit she pulled out half the paperwork we already sent it including the background checks ect... So I seriously have no idea what is going on...

I live in CT. It's crazy how every state is so incredibly different in their process and timeframes.

Here's a link to my blog. This particular post describes the process for getting licensed through CT DCF:
fourplusonemore.wordpress.com/2015/03/06/a-thoroughly-daunting-process/

OMG.... I didn't count the pages of all the stuff we had to fill out but there is a large difference between what you have and what we have. Then again ours might be completely messed up.