We got a call today regarding our new adoption application. We will be working with the same recruiter as our last adoption. She called today to let us know she got our information & to start the ball rolling. From this point she will go ahead & submit our background checks, schedule us for FBI fingerprinting & send out our reference checks. Generally you complete your PRIDE training first, which is basically your core class(es). After PRIDE training there are still a few misc. classes left to complete before moving on to your home study. We completed our PRIDE training last time by doing a class that was all day Thursday, Friday & Saturday. We will be doing the same classes this time as well. The office location we will be doing our PRIDE classes at only offers them every other month. The next class starts this month on the 19th & is too soon for us to take off for. We will be completing our PRIDE classes the next time they are offered in July. She did agree to go ahead & let us start completing the misc. classes out of order since we can apparently be trusted to complete the training (as we have one successful adoption & know what to expect). I would assume this order is because many people do NOT make it through PRIDE training for various reasons & the agency does not want to waste time or resource training people who can't complete the PRIDE. Hopefully we have some more news pretty soon!
-Crystal
