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Any insight on what it means when Child Protective Services kinda has people in limbo?
My cousin had her kids taken away over a month ago. My husband and I agreed to be her safety placement (with the rest of her immediate family's approval). She is bi-polar and off her meds. The kids were taken away for medical neglect and for their overall safety. CPS has taken away the older child twice before. She has no stable living situation and tends to bounce around between friends every few days to few weeks. The CPS lady told me she'd have to have a psych evaluation completed and parenting classes before she could possibly get them back. At this point, its 2 weeks past the 30 day evaluation and she nor I have been contacted about the next phase. The CPS lady did have us sign updated paperwork that tacked another month onto the time they could be staying at my house, but not hearing anything else. Any insight on what could be going on? Could this mean they are going to take them away, or that they might be giving her more time to get stable? Please don't comment about her, I know this situation sucks. I just want advice on what might be going on with the case. The family is hoping her rights will get terminated and my husband and I will be allowed to adopt. We hope so too, but more importantly we want what is best for the kids. They are my cousins, several generations apart.
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- Dena KLv 610 years agoFavorite Answer
Welcome to the wonderful world of foster care, where "hurry up and wait" is the norm.
Everything in foster care has to go through several different entities. The specific foster care agency. The courts. The state. A tribe if relevant. It all takes time. And if she has to have a psych eval, that means setting up an appointment. Waiting for the next session of parenting classes to start.
I would say you are going to have those kids for quite awhile. If the mother is bi-polar, she has to go to her psych evaluation, then she will have to go to her med appointment, then she will have to start therapy. That alone, depending on how quickly all of this takes to get set up, is going to take more than a month. Then they are going to want to see her get much more stable.
The reasons you haven't heard much is because there is probably not much to tell other than they are getting things set up and they are filing paperwork and things are making their way to the relevant agencies involved. I don't know a lot about kinship foster care but you probably have to have a background check done which means that they are probably waiting for finger prints results and anything to come back from your state bureau of investigations.
On Tuesday, email them and ask the social worker what a tentitive time frame might be. Just don't be surprised if she writes back and says that they have nothing definitive right now.
