{"id":2646,"date":"2013-07-13T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2013-07-13T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T15:12:54","slug":"this-is-so-not-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"This is so not OK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 19th, after finding out that <a title=\"Children's Home Society\" href=\"http:\/\/chsfl.org\" target=\"_blank\">CHS<\/a> was <a title=\"We have class! For adoption, that is\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=2570\" target=\"_blank\">full until September\/October<\/a>, I emailed all the other agencies in Dade county. We obviously had great luck and responsiveness from <a title=\"We have class! For adoption, that is\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=2570\" target=\"_blank\">FRC<\/a> as they are the agency we&#8217;re working with. No one else was really responsive.<\/p>\n<p>Until Tuesday. Yep, 51 days later.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"His House Children's Home\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hhch.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">HHCH<\/a>* replied not with a &#8220;oh we&#8217;re sorry for not responding sooner but would love to work with you,&#8221; but with an invitation to their PRIDE classes.<\/p>\n<p>And they used way too many ALL CAPS for my taste. Ew.<\/p>\n<p>So I responded with &#8220;No, we will not be attending. We are working with another agency. I don&#8217;t know anything about your agency as no one has ever been in contact with me since I emailed you 2 months ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And she promptly responded to apologize and that she&#8217;s not sure what could have happened.<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>Thursday morning, another person emailed me about it. I am not planning on responding to her. The only reason I responded on Tuesday was bc it was that I had to RSVP to the class. This email is a total cop out. If your class was full or I had incorrect information, then freakin email me back and let me know. Not an adoption agency? Fine! I don&#8217;t want to work with you anyhow as you recommend foster to adopt and we&#8217;ve specifically ruled that out.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Hi Becca,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I want to apologize for not emailing you earlier and if I remember correctly the reason was that we had already begun a class and our next Orientation was not until 7\/18\/13 and you were interested in starting a class right away. In addition, we are not an adoption agency, although you may have the opportunity to adopt a child if the child becomes available to be adopted. We usually recommend our families to foster to adopt where you will have the privilege of fostering a child and\/or children and may possibly adopt that child (ren); however, it is not a guarantee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>You may have already begun the classes with CHS on 6\/20\/13. Please advise if you have not and if you were still interested.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks so much!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Here to Love and to Serve His Kingdom,<\/em><br \/>\n<em> NT<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>* In all fairness, I was hesitant to even go with this agency as their website tells about their mission which is very&#8230; religious. Neither of us are religious &#8211; spiritual, yes, but not religious &#8211; and just reading through the site made me a little uncomfortable. So like <a title=\"24\/7 Foster\/Adoption Support Line\" href=\"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/?p=2635\" target=\"_blank\">KB<\/a> said, everything happens for a reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 19th, after finding out that CHS was full until September\/October, I emailed all the other agencies in Dade county. We obviously had great luck and responsiveness from FRC as they are the agency we&#8217;re working with. No one else was really responsive. Until Tuesday. Yep, 51 days later. HHCH* replied not with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,56,62,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-foster-adoption","category-miami","category-other-agencies","category-paperwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beccablogs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}