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My wife and I have adopted two children out of the Oregon foster care system and are in the process of adopting a third. One thing that we have noticed is that there is very poor communication between the case workers and parents trying to adopt children who are in the system.

We have never been given a complete time line of all the steps that need to happen before placement. We have always been given information only 1 or 2 steps at a time. This has made it really hard for us to want to keep working with DHS.

It seems to me that case workers need to be trained to treat prospective adoptive parents as peers rather then as another client when so many of their clients are part of the problem.

Thanks,

Lon

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