My Family Moments: Back to Work I Go

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Back to Work I Go

She's out and wouldn't ya know she gets her visits back. With a nice 4 week break we will begin seeing Mommy for 2 hours twice a week. And yay I get to supervise! That means I sit there in the vicinity, in our case at the park about 20 yards away, and watch how Mommy treats "Little Man". How much she is on her cell phone... How many times she comes over to me to chat... How long she keeps him in the swing instead of letting him wander through the playground... Can't you hear the excitement in my words? We meet in the morning so it's a little cool in the air. I have to bundle up with a blanket and bring a few different activities to keep me from falling asleep. Some crocheting, some digi-scrapping and some reading on the iPhone. BioMom thinks we will only be in this visit mode for a visit or two. I happen to think otherwise. I can feel that the wheels of the system are grinding away and things are about to change. Now, that is all I know and yes it's a feeling. Not even a fact. I'm back to visits and I'm back to waiting for the calls to come through from the county. Kathleen is making her emails and calls to the SW hoping to hear back. It seems that the county is slow right now in the foster kid dept. Angel's has 6 or7 families waiting for babies. One family has been waiting for 3 months. So that should mean my SW should have some time to get on this case. Get on with it lady! Is BioMom a "No" or a "Go"?

1 comment:

M&N said...: Thanks for the update. ;0) Good luck on your visits. Sounds like things are a bit slow here as well. I will find out soon enough on my own. ;0); Monday, March 10, 2014

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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.