We've been pressing the adoption process for the last two weeks and every time it seems like we're making progress, we also feel like we add two more steps until the finish line. We have completed our CPR class and gotten Rolle a new series of rabies shots. We have begun a home study that includes 4 visits from an independent social worker who asks us all kinds of intrusive questions...that we don't mind answering...but we've written it all down at least twice now. The lady who came for these visits prefaced her first visit by telling us how long this study would take, that she did it part time, and she was going to be very detailed. Sometime during the first round of questions, she realized our expectations were to get the children sometime this summer. She has been very kind to come twice this week, and has committed to help us get through this part of the process as efficiently as possible.
There are a lot of individuals involved on the other side of our process. It's not linear. It's not a check list and if we do check something off someone else has to approve that and re-check it. I am thankful people are checking into homes they are sending children into, that's important. However, the efficiency is frustrating. Sometimes we want to just forget it and then we realize it won't change the process and there will still be children without a home.
Everyday 12 children are taken into foster care in Arkansas to add to the already 4000 in care. There are currently 500 children available for adoptions and waiting for a forever home in Arkansas.
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