We're taking foster/adoption classes through Arizona Adoption and Foster Care and I'm so excited! They start April 2nd, are 3 hours each and last for 11 weeks. My friend who teaches Elizabeth piano has graciously accepted to watch our kids while we go since they are on Monday nights and I feel bad asking anyone from the ward. She doesn't have any kids and her husband is a med student so it works out well!
I am excited, thrilled, hopeful, happy, somewhat nervous, worried and overwhelmed. We have a lot to do still and still need to fill out tons of paperwork, get personal references, and prep our house to pass a safety inspection. The safety inspection can be done later though.
This is to do foster care/adopt through the State. Basically it is taking care of the kids that CPS takes away from their Parents. Their main goal is to reunite the children with their Parents. If adoption becomes an option that is just extra. We plan on taking kids younger than Asher- so age 4 or 5 and below- (and yes, we're willing to take babies too!) I would love to take more than one, but our car only fits so many. Once certified- which won't be until around September-,we could get a call at anytime day or night when there is someone who needs a temporary home. We'll be doing the foster care program and that program has a higher chance of adoption, as they often ask the Foster Parents first if they would like to adopt the child.
Adoption and Foster Care is a new, different world to us. My Aunt adopted 2 children into her home about 12 years ago, but other than that we don't have a lot of adoption/foster care experience in our families. It will be a new and different journey, but one we are happily embarking on! Any and all support would mean the world to us! Arizona really needs people who are willing to take care of children who need it and we have a spot in our home and hearts for at least one of those! Wish us luck!
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