Crushing
All Hope: Trying to be a Foster Parent for Manitoba Child
and Family Services
Table of
Contents
Introduction
The Long Germination
of the Idea
Tasks Most
Difficult
Asking about
Adoption - 2015
Adoption
Options - 2015
UAS
Eastern European Adoptions Inc.
Manitoba
Adoptions through Child and Family Services
The Foster
Parent System - 2016
Applying to
be a Foster Parent - 2016
The
Best Social Worker I Ever Had
Trying
out the Agencies
Macdonald
Youth Services - 2015
Child
and Family Services - 2016
Information
Meeting and Orientation - 2016
Meeting Annie
Clark - 2016
My Second
Orientation - 2016
The Third
Orientation - 2016
My Fourth
and Final Orientation - 2016
The Year-long
Home Study - 2017
Kim
Marcino - 2017
First
Home Study Meeting - April 13
Second
Home Study Meeting - April 18
Third
Home Study Meeting - April 20
Last
Home Study Meeting - September 21
Forced
to be Normal
Delaying
the Home Study
Copy of Kim's
Home Study, Annotated - 2017
Licensing
My New Social
Worker
Male
Parents
Delay
Tactics
Fall
of 2018
Meeting
with Kim - Dec 4, 2018
Becoming
Suspicious - 2019
Meeting Kathy
Furkalo - April 17, 2019
Their
Investigation of Kim - 2019
Training
Session
New Social
Worker: Melissa Santos - 2019
Why
I didn't have a Placement
Television
Vegetarianism
Cottage
Gender
as Problem
Former
Foster Kid a Problem?
Emails
from Melissa
Second Meeting
with Melissa
I make a FIPPA
Request
Bureaucratic
Answer to My FIPPA Request
New Social
Worker: Jonathan Siu, Feb 2020
Meeting Patti
and Jonathan to See My File - May 22, 2020
My
Parameters Are too Strict
Why
I Don't have a Placement
Jonathan
is Going to Work for Me
Suggesting
Other Agencies
Respite,
Not a Placement
Confronting
Jonathan about Not Working on My File
Don't
I Want to Quit?
Roadblocks:
Cottage
Roadblocks:
Vegetarianism
Roadblocks:
Gender of Child
Examining
My File
Roadblocks:
Gender
Roadblocks:
Television
They
Return to the List
Transfer
of Summary
Outsourced
Training
Transfer
to Another Agency
Bed
Hold
The
Placement List
Discussion
of Winnipeg
A Sudden Flurry
of Pretend Placements
The Disappearing
Social Worker
Jonathan Home
Study Review, Nov 9, 2020
Jonathan Home
Study Review - Feb 10, 2021
Structure
of CFS Changes Again
Reading
His Assessments in My Review File
My Last Social
Worker: Paige Dubois, 2021
Conclusion
Appendix 1
- The Black Stockings
Appendix 2
- Who is Sheri?
Works Cited
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