New License!

Yesterday we received our new foster parenting license! For those of you that may be confused by this and are thinking "wait a minute, I thought they were already licensed", let me explain.

In a nutshell, back in March, when we were taking the foster parenting training classes on our own account, we received that call from my sister in law asking us if we would be willing to possibly take her son. (so we were already in the process of doing this on our own with no family situations involved) We were told that the state of Idaho had to make a formal request to have us get our background checks, fingerprints done, home study, and health and safety inspection, etc. These were all things we would have done in the regular process of getting licensed as foster parents. When we got them all done and received our first license, we were officially seen as a fit home to have our nephew brought in. So through the formal request for a specific child (our nephew) we became licensed only for him, and not other children. It was his name on the first certificate. When we got word that my sister in law was going to be getting the kids back, we went ahead with our original plans and had to call the Department of Child and Family Services to request that our records be updated and modified so that we could get a certificate that stated we weren't only licensed for one specific child, but for any children. It is all a legal way of wording things.

With the long process it took to get anyone to answer our questions at the beginning of the summer and having any positive results not coming our way, it has been wonderful to work with our Licensor who has been a God send who really gets things done! We are thrilled!