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Originally Posted by Adria
Well I found the USKids website but when I called our social worker today for a homestudy update she told me that I do have to become a licensed foster parent to adopt through family services  and that most states won't place with us until after we have our baby. |
Here (and I'm pretty sure everywhere) you have to go through all the training etc. to do EITHER. We did 30 hours of training a couple of years ago to be able to foster. Now we are going the adoption route thru the state so the classes count for that (they are for either). They tend to be really discouraging to you when you call and ask questions (not sure why...). They'll say they have no babies available, etc. and it's just not true. We've missed out on two babies by not being *quite* approved. One was a boy straight from the hospital and the other was 5 months. This is just in the last few months.
The MAJORITY of foster kids won't be on any website. In our state, about 1/5 of the kids are on the website, and usually they are the harder to place kids (the other ones go quicker obviously so they never get on the site).
If you go to fosterparents.com there is a heading at the top that says STATES and it'll give you the direct website for each state. I know our state usually is not on USkids, so not all states are there, kwim?
It may be true they may not place with you until after you have the baby, but it would probably take that long to get approved. You would need training and then the homestudy. Unless your state is pretty quick.