AdoptUsKids’ network of Recruitment Response Teams (RRTs) works exclusively for families like yours. Each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico has its own RRT staffed with experienced professionals in foster care and adoption. Sometimes they have even fostered or adopted themselves!
Your RRT will contact you within three days of your inquiry with AdoptUsKids to welcome you and provide you with helpful information and resources. If you have questions, be sure to ask. They will continue working with you as long as you need them in your foster care and/or adoption process. Your RRT is always available to:
• Give you a list of agencies in your area with information on attending the orientations as well as tips on how to pick which agency is best for you,
• Answer your questions and provide you with resources so you can increase your knowledge on your own,
• Provide you with encouragement and support,
• Link you to parent support groups where you will meet families like your own,
• Help you maneuver through any challenges that may pop up along the way,
• Be a resource and support for you in the child placement process – whether the child or children you are hoping to adopt are in your own state or out of state.
AdoptUsKids’ RRTs don’t provide foster and adoption services. They help you get the best services possible. They work for you, so contact them when ever you need assistance or support, or have good news you would like to share with someone who is really interested in your success.
You can talk directly with our AdoptUsKids staff by calling 1-888-200-4005 or you can register online at info@adoptuskids.org.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Adoptuskids' recruitment response teams
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Is this new? We've been registered on AdoptUsKids for years and have never been contacted. We've only been contacted once by a social worker for a child that didn't come close to matching what we had listed. We've actually adopted 5 times since we were registered but not any of the children were listed here. All of our children have special needs, most are minority and older, and three are siblings so we've always been open to the 'hard to place' kids. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Shelley
This is the first I have heard if RRT. Who handles the State or Rhode Isand?
We joined this adotuskids this ast summer and also have never been contacted. Will this RRT be retro active?
Txs!
Cara
RRT is new to me too. I'd like to know more about how the RRT works. I've been signed up on AdoptUsKids since the summer as well and only one profile of a child was sent so far, but we were not a match. I love this "blog spot." I've read every item to get more information on the adoption process and how the public agencies match children and families.
If you would like to be contacted by your state RRT, please call 1-888-200-4005 and you will be called within 3 business days. This is not a new service but depending when you first registered on adoptuskids.org, you may have missed the RRT network. Don't hesitate to call now!
This week has been a difficult week for us...
We did contact many officials in our area from our state representative for adoption to our Adoption liason rep (she works with our state Heart Gallery) and our regional manager that is the head of our local agency.
I want to stress that sometimes it helps to go up the chain of command, respectfully. Not like a tyrant.
So far we are hopeful that they will show us some helpful solutions rather then find our needs to adopt an "enigma".
I also called the # 800 number for RRT- Recruitment Response teams. They lady understood my frustration... I was having a bad day! She listened and let me vent. She took down my information and verified that I was an official verifiable "AdoptUSKIDs" member and relayed the message to my state/area rep.
Within 24 hrs I received an email from my local rep with a long list of state public and private agencies.
I called her and relayed my issue... which was in her notes.
I found the service to be somewhat helpful. I believe that I am doing pretty well with what I have discovered, that this issue with local agencies not "working" to help families adopt either within the state or outside their homestate is nationwide problem. There is a large Gap in this "Adoption" journey for many, many americans.
She suggested I call my governor.
The other suggestion was to contact a private agency to assist in our search. She had some very convincing reasons.
They have your best interest at hand. That interest will cost you... perhaps as much as $10,000 for an adoption. A process that in my eyes attracts many because of the supposedly low fee's - working with a private agency is what most adoptive parents want to avoid thus selecting a local state public agency.... she did however remind me of tax credits ( which depend on your tax bracket - it's not like cash in hand) and perhaps some states will pay some of the adoption expenses, which again gat's floated in to the state's funding.... She did state that the fee's were not always reimburseable, but could be if the right state was working up such a plan. Some state's pay often others do not. She also suggested that we could get a second mortgage... not a good thing to say to me... In this spend crazy consumerism,way of life...not a good spin. Many waiting parents have suffered severe finacial hardships with private agencies. Many have no caps or "acceptable" and reasonable fee ranges. Some states do have caps... do your homework.
For me the exchange of money for a child is icky.
But, I also am able to have children, If I was not fertile I would probable give into any reasonable or perhaps unreasonable plight to adopt a child - this is where many agencies can take advantage of waiting families. Be smart.
The other down fall for us, is that we would have to attend another set of "training" since our PRIDE trainging would not be transeferable. YUCK... for us to reach a private agency training - we would have to travel 2 hours away (that's one way) 2-3 times a week. Plus the time away from work ( less income) and yadda, yadda, yadda.... We are hopeful to find one locally, perfaps cheaper?
I suppose we may not have a choice... it is a sacrifice we can only decide. Many foster/adopt families struggle with the obscurity of taking the classes and arranging childcare. We have done it twice already.
The recruitment rep was sweet and kind and compassionate. The only thing that sort of dissatisfied me ... is that she worked for a local private adoption agency. Therefore I can not honestly say that she would be the best to advise me with my own agency troubles. But, that is not the point of these recruitment teams... they just provide you a list of agencies both public and private that convey adoption practices.
She did provide a good sounding board... thanks!
Funny thing is ... my public agency is listed ( on the list she provided) and it appears just like any list on the internet, nothing special- and believe me they are not special, useful or helpful ( my agency).
Thanks for providing this service, I am sure that I will find it helpful in the future, the best part is... it's free!
If you are new to the system - Journey of adoption, it's worth the time.
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