Who is responsible for shipping personal belongings after a cross-country reunification? My foster daughter was with me for three years and received a lot of gifts during that time. She took six large suitcases full of clothes, electronics, and toys, but there was no way to fit her two dollhouses, two bicycles, two scooters, a go-kart, a hoverboard, etc. into her luggage. The foster care agency told me that it will be my personal and financial responsibility to get all of these items to her in Pennsylvania after the trial period of their reunification ends. This seems strange to me because I know our agency has covered shipping costs for kids aging out. One time, they hired an animal transporter to take a girl's cat across country.
I will either have to take time off work, rent a moving truck, and drive it from Texas to Pennsylvania with a high-needs therapeutic child in tow (alone as a single foster parent), or I will have to spend thousands of dollars replacing all of these things for her, or spend thousands hiring a hazmat-approved shipper (some of the items cannot be shipped by most transporters due to the size of their lithium batteries). It is really a big mess.
Of all the large, expensive items I am supposed to either send her or replace, she only ever uses two, but she says she wants to keep them all, and the agency assured her that I will make that happen.
Has anyone else been in this position? Who ended up paying for everything?