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Angie

By |2019-11-06T16:14:28-05:00July 27th, 2016|

Angie* is a grandmother who was in a two-year struggle to gain guardianship of her grandsons Michael* and Jeremy*. Each time she thought that bringing the children home was in sight, the foster care agency demanded another item, document, or course training.

Rosa

By |2019-11-06T16:23:23-05:00July 27th, 2016|

Rosa* wanted some advice about how she could adopt Monica*, age eight, and Louisa*, age six. Rosa was their foster parent. She had a good relationship with Diana, the girls’ mother, but Diana could not parent due to her mental health issues. The girls’ father had abandoned them several years ago. Adopting would not be simple. Rosa primarily spoke Spanish and had no funds for legal counsel.

Sam

By |2019-11-06T16:42:53-05:00July 27th, 2016|

After foster parenting for eight months, Angie legally adopted Sam. Angie was experienced, but now Sam, at sixteen, was really testing both her parenting skills and patience. Angie tearfully admitted to “being done,” ready to surrender Sam back into the foster care system out of frustration and desperation.

Ellen

By |2019-11-06T16:53:13-05:00July 27th, 2016|

Ellen had been caring for Eric, who had several challenging behaviors. Ellen admitted that she was at the end of her rope and seriously ready to call her foster care agency and demand they remove Eric from her home. Ellen felt she had no choice.

Beth

By |2019-11-06T16:59:24-05:00July 27th, 2016|

Beth* called the Coalition’s HelpLine on a Thursday looking for information on how to search for biological family including her birth mother and known biological siblings. As an adult adoptee born and adopted through foster care in New York, she had tried to search on her own for fifteen years, only to reach a dead end again and again.

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