We and a few other local families were able to meet with the Minister of Children and Families. We had sent a petition letter (actually over 30 of them) to our local MLA and it turned out Stephanie Cadieux was going to be in the area last Monday. Our MLA set up a meeting for us, and we were able to bring some of our concerns about wait times and unwritten policies to her attention. She is very much a politician, and mentioned money several times, but also said that the adoption sector is one that she feels strongly about, and is already looking to make some changes in. She invited us to share any recommendations we feel would help the process, or to fix problems that are currently on-going.
I wrote a post in our AEP course encouraging all of the participants to contact their MLA's about issues. I posted our letter for them to use as a template if need be. The more MLA's that are aware (our MLA had no idea it was an issue) of the wait times to get into things like the AEP, or having homestudies done, the more likely change will occur.
This may not help our process and timeline, but in the long run will help get kids into forever homes faster. In my opinion it should all be about the kids.
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