Your foster parent training will be on the day we sign the finalization paperwork. :) Our certification took about 4 months to process. Not quite sure why it was so long, but seems like it should have been shorter. Could have been change of social workers. We've had about 7 different ones. To us the hardest part was looking through the books to choose a child. Don't be afraid to choose many kids. Many of them will not be available or have already gone somewhere else. It took us 6 months to get a match after we were certified. Some are shorter and some are longer. (I won't scare you with the finalization timeline. We were not a typical case.)
Good luck with it. It's definitely a ride and don't be afraid to push for what you need to help you along the way.
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Your foster parent training will be on the day we sign the finalization paperwork. :) Our certification took about 4 months to process. Not quite sure why it was so long, but seems like it should have been shorter. Could have been change of social workers. We've had about 7 different ones. To us the hardest part was looking through the books to choose a child. Don't be afraid to choose many kids. Many of them will not be available or have already gone somewhere else. It took us 6 months to get a match after we were certified. Some are shorter and some are longer. (I won't scare you with the finalization timeline. We were not a typical case.)
Good luck with it. It's definitely a ride and don't be afraid to push for what you need to help you along the way.
Adam