Salem, Oregon
They need to be willing to go against the state of Oregon, challenging an Adoptive Placement. Adoption Committe was presented "facts" by the Agency that had been proven 14 months earlier to be fabrications of a caseworker who did not approve of the birth mother’s adoptive choice.
We are third cousin’s to the 3 children in question, we have been activly involved in their lives since the oldest was 13 months old. As soon as we were made aware there was a need for the children to be adopted we have done everything needed to become that resource. The agency is supporting the foster parents as an adoptive resource, they have been custodial since Sept. The birth mother is developmentally delayed buy antibiotics and suffers from PTS due to birth father’s ongoing stalking. We are a large family and realized to late how severely she was affected by him. There was never any abuse, just a lack of understanding as to what it takes to raise children.
The agency had numerous opportunities to help heal our family. Yet they allowed and undertrained new hire caseworker to make a decision based on her own personal oppinion – instead of the facts she was presented with.
In answer to your question, yes. Custody of the kids / caseworker accountability / competent training
we want it all….