My Family Moments: It's Clean

Saturday, May 17, 2008

It's Clean

The office is clean and I just have to finish the top of the desk. It looks so nice again for the 10th time. Hopefully I can keep it this way. My dad helped me get things to where they needed to be instead of piled in one place. I got lots of papers filed and shredded. It felt good. Now, I am attacking the laundry. I got some good ideas from a fabulous friend and will be implementing them starting Monday. I can't wait because I think it's something I can do. I can't imagine being caught up on anything...especially laundry and filing.

We bought MS Office 2007 today. Awesome deal...Er's Dad is in the Navy so we have access to the Navy Exchange which not only has no tax on purchases but usually has awesome deals on things. So, I was able to buy this program for $80 instead of $200 or more. So cool! Now I can get work done on my laptop. Real work. hahaha.

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"Foster Family" Terminology

SW: Social Worker = This is a professionally trained (at times I feel from a YouTube video) individual who works for any County or private organization. My foster baby will have a SW and I will have a SW who is also known as a CCW. (see below)

CCW: Clinical Case Worker = This is a professionally trained individual, also known as a Social Worker who works for Angel’s Foster Family Network. They are assigned to a maximum of 12 families at one time and lead them through the fostering system. They are our right hand gal. (no males as of yet) This person does all the legal pushing and pulling on our behalf so we can focus solely on loving and caring for our foster babies. I would not and will not ever do my job as a foster mom without these people.

Supervised Visit = The bioparent has rights to see their child no matter the circumstances. Most often the visits begin as 1 to 2 hours, 1 to 2 times a week. An adult that is approved must watch the parent with the child at all times. (sometimes a lot of work and sometimes boring as heck)

Unsupervised Visit = The bioparent has rights to see their child no matter the circumstances before. If they are improving their situation then they will eventually get the right to have visits without supervision. The foster parent must drop off the child at an approved location and pick them up later. Most often the visit is for 2-6 hours 1 to 2 times a week. And these will only increase in length as the situation improves. (super hard for the foster parent to move to this step)

Foster Baby/Child = A child that has been removed from their biological family due to many different reasons affecting the welfare of the child. They are then placed in protective custody under the County and State.