My Family Moments: Recap...

Friday, April 25, 2014

Recap...

I pick up a brand new bouncing baby boy from the hospital, 2 days old, because he has no one who is capable of caring for him. I take him home, care for him morning, noon and night, fall in love, prepare myself and my family mentally and emotionally for him to leave our home forever at least 2 different times. We celebrate his 1^st birthday after watching him to learn to rollover, laugh, eat big people food and crawl. (Not necessarily in that order.) Then, we help him learn to stand, balance, walk and run, all the while kissing his boo boos and loving him even more. We are just shy of 18 months of pure love for our son! Now it’s almost time to send him away forever. For real this time. Well, maybe. Could we hang on for another 6 months? Oh wait -- unpack. It might be another 18 months...

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M&N said...: Wait, what?!?!?!?!?! Another 18 months????? What they are doing should be illegal. Seriously! I am so sorry all of your hearts are having to go through this!; Friday, April 25, 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.