Our address was given.
My wife and I are new to foster care (about 1 year of being licensed)
the case was just postponed by 6 months, we have beem kinship for 2 years. Empower has been ordered by the court to facilitate weekend visits in another state but decided to allow a visit from Tuesday to Sunday because the biological mother was in town for court. My wife and I are entirely new to the process. We did not know we should have appeared in court as we were advised not to. We have had to drive 3 hours to pick up our foster child because Empower was not able to organize transport for previous visits.)
is this normal? We have had so much pushback from every agency aside from CASA who is telling us we are being taken advantage of.
we want to help children in need but this system seems so disjointed and my wife and I are looking for some sort of anchor point to normality.
edit: our Address was given to one of the biological parents without our consent. Does not seem to be protocol but no agency has shared our concern and we have our doubts now.