My Family Moments: A proud moment

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A proud moment

Tonight Er and I went to his high school All Sports Banquet. The Athletic Director who is also a close family friend and the head coach for Varsity Basketball told me over the weekend to make sure Erwin attends this event. He would be getting an award. I had no idea what though. So we all went and saw some friends. Nice time. Then at the almost end of the event, the principal was annoucning the Coach of the Year. And bam! It was Erwin. Coach Macalaguim! It was so cool cuz he had no clue! Erwin has coached (3) sports every year for as along as I can remember. This past year it was Girls Varsity and JV Volleyball, Boys JV Basketball and then Boys Varsity Volleyball. It was so nice to see him recognized for all the hard work he has done. Although, in my mind a plaque doesn't even begin to scratch the surface. But saying my husband is "Coach of the Year" is pretty neat!

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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.