Last Tuesday we attended an information session for families interested in foster care/adoption through the department of social services. I have known for a while that I do not want to go this route to adopt. Adopting through social services is a whole other ball of wax. Adoption in the US is much different that international adoption as well. Will and I want a healthy child between the age of 1-2 years old and that is almost impossible in the US. Since there are so many orphans in other countries, it's much easier to get a young child. 95% of all children under the age of 5yr in the US are fostered with family members and it's rare for an outside party to adopt them.
But we decided to attend the session anyway, just to hear what they had to say. Conveniently the session was held right down the street from my job, so I knew exactly where to go. Surprisingly there were a lot of families there, as you can see below. About half were there just to be foster parents and the other half were interested in adoption only.
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| Foster/Adoption Information Session - Social Services |
The good thing about adoption through social services is that you can adopt for cheap. But after attending this session, even Will knew that going this way is not for us.
After that, we continued to contact the rest of the agencies on the list and request information packets. In the meantime, Carolina Adoption services, hosted a webinar on Haiti adoption last night. I literally raced home in time to make this webinar. I had a meeting with my lab director at 2pm, a hair appointment at 4:30, and needed to be home by 6pm for this webinar. Will was stuck at work, so he called in from the office. Allie from CAS hosted the webinar, and we were able to type in any questions we had. So far CAS seems to be the best fit for us. They have their own orphanage in Haiti where the children are between newborn and five years old. They are located here in North Carolina so we would easily be able to establish a relationship with them. We will attend one of their information session in Raleigh in two weeks.
In other news, I've been crazy busy at work. Had my first laboratory inspection last week and in the process of implementing a lab information system for my department. And on top of all that I'm in meetings everyday.
Soooo ready for a vacation. Me, Will, and Rocco have a trip planned to the outer banks in May. We rented a oceanfront condo in Kill Devil Hills. I love the outer banks, it's so peaceful. I also will be going back to Essence Music Festival in New Orleans during July 4th weekend with my sister and friends from college. That trip will deserve a blog of it's own :)
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