My Ebenezer

Foster Care Adoption and Life after adoption

Four-Way

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Posted Aug 28th 2005

by Ebenezer

I saw the Adoption Lady at church this morning and I asked her about our case study being submitted. She said we won’t always know when our study is submitted on a child and that she knows we have already been submitted on a few of them. Our case worker won’t ask us before she submits us for a child, but she will ask us before it gets to the next step.

Once homestudies are submitted on a child or sibling group, a few case studies (families) are selected to move on to the next step. The next step is called a “four-way”. This is where our case study would go to a meeting with the CPS worker and, I’m guessing, also the case workers representing other families. A decision is made about which family is the best fit for this child or group of children. We will be told before our study is taken into a “four-way” – that will be our opportunity to ask lots of questions and say either “yes” or “no”. (though I can’t imagine us saying “no”)

Once we are chosen, the transition period will begin. This is where we would get to visit the child(ren) one day, then a few days later take the child(ren) for a few hours, then a few days after that bring the child(ren) to spend a night with us and then finally a few days after that bring the child home with us for good. Of course, all of this depends on the age of the child(ren) – it could take a longer or a shorter time than all of that.

Anyway, Adoption Lady said we might hear something this week. Holy Stinkin’ Cow.

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4 Replies

  1. I just got chills thinking you might hear something THIS week!

    I am praying that you will!

    JB

  2. This is fun, hearing all the details.

    It gets me teary. In church this morning, I read this passage:

    Psa 68:6 “God sets the lonely in families…”

  3. SHORTHORNS Aug 28th 2005

    GOOD, GOOD, GOOD! WE CAN’T WAIT! HOPE TO HEAR SOMETHING SOON. YOU ARE IN OUR PRAYERS1 LOTS OF LOVE!

  4. Hurray for progress – such a long road to follow, but what a reward at the end! It is so cool to wonder if your child(ren) have even been born yet, what they look like, how old they are – and how quickly they too will learn how to “shake the stink out” like Daddy. :)