I am at a total loss at this point. I have not had time blog lately and I am going to tell you what has kept me from it. Refresher for those who have never read my blog and reminder for those who do.
Due to a family situation I am the foster mother to my niece and nephews. Believe me I would move heaven earth for them or any child in need. This is not the first time I have had them. Though as time goes on it is very apparent to me that the several things fell through the cracks or the case is just been mishandled and somebody is trying to cover their mistakes.
I have had these three children since the middle of August. I have been made to jump through hoops like you wouldn't believe. If they made being a parent as difficult maybe there would be less abuse and neglect.
The youngest is in a daycare for children with behavior issues. The older two have therapy once a week. One is in the home and the other goes to a therapist . They have visit on Saturdays with mom and the father of the boys. My niece has visit one day during the week with her father. Two days a week there are assistance to the therapists in the home for two hours a visit. Mind you it is not the same two
days either.
In addition to this I have the caseworker come and walk through my house to make sure it is suitable for them to live in. Mind you they were living in a two bedroom apartment with all three children in the same bedroom. The apartment was unkempt that is putting it kindly. I had to have a home study done and that person had to tour my house and then give a recommendation if I was fit to keep them. Remember I had them previously from December of 2005 until August of 2006. Then we had to get finger printed by the state patrol everyone over the age of 18 that lives in the home. Last but not least so the State can get its fair share of the grant monies they have come out to the home to license us a family placement foster care home.
In addition to all of this I take them to doctor appointments, dentist appointments and attend parent teacher meetings and deal with any other contact regarding the children. Also include are monthly visits from the case worker, monthly IEP's for the youngest one and host (and I use that term loosely) a monthly team meeting for my sister, the caseworker, family support worker and family advocate.
I am the one with the children and she is the one with the cheering section to help get down the right path. The icing on the cake with all this, the state has me jumping through all these hoops telling me until this is done and that is done I cannot be paid for care of the children.
So now that I have dotted all my i's and crossed all my t's I call the state today. I ask if system updated to recieve a check for November. Keep in mind that I have had the children since August. The response is no, I am sorry our system does not recognize that there should be a retro check cut. The irony in this is if you owe the government money they sure know how to flag you to get their money.
Insane I know. The government really needs to take a look at how they treat the ones that are trying to help fix what someone else has broken.
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