Hello,
My husband and I became relative caregivers for our neices and nephews on December 3rd 2010 due to a very severe auto accident. The children were placed into states custody following the accident and my husband and I immediately took all the necessary steps to care for them. We had to attend classes to become foster parents in order to keep them. We finished the classes at the end of Feburary but we are still awaiting DCS to complete their end to start recieving a board payment for the children. They are in no hurry and they do not back pay. When we got the children I had to take a leave of absence from my job of 5 years to stay home with them. We already had 2 children of our own ages 6 and 10 and the other 4 children were all younger at ages 19mos, 4, 5, and 6. The only child of the 4 old enough to attend public school was thhe 6 year old. We checked into childcare for the other 3 but it was far too expensive, espically since I was already paying after care for our 2 children. So now I am home and my husband works as much as he can. Our accounts are getting very low and we are paying 900 dollars a month in rent (apartment) with no yard for 6 children. We would really love to purchase a home that is big enough for our now very large family. Is there anyone out there who offers assistance with this?? We have learned in the past few months that the right thing is often a very hard thing to do. Thank you
