From the people who attended some of the meetings, most of them made some mention of the CCAA delegates truly caring about the children and being very interested in talking to them and hearing about them. I will again say that most everyone who has ever met someone who works at the CCAA comes away [...]

A November 18th family has been told they will not be included in this batch. That would seem to be a pretty safe bet, I think.
Another agency feels that the CCAA may complete the November LID’s with the August referrals. I don’t really know how to rate this one on the R scale. R2 or [...]

If you’ll remember from my When post, we should expect the next batch at the earliest Friday June 29 and the latest Friday July 13. The most likely time of 32 days takes us to Saturday July 7, so I said the most likely first arrivals will be either Friday July 6th or Monday July [...]

Back in October I made some calculations on what the backlog was likely to have been at that time.
Back then we assumed that a 7 month wait before the deluge of dossiers meant about 7,000 dossiers sitting at the CCAA waiting to be matched to a child. This assumed the CCAA was receiving around 1,000 [...]

In the past when someone went on hold they were usually matched within a month or two of going off hold.
I’m seeing reports that this is not happening anymore. One person has been told that when the next batch from their agency leaves the review room that they will be batched with that group. This [...]

Do we still have families from the early May batch who are waiting for their TA? I know that earlier in the week this was the case, but I saw that some had come in so as we near the time that the most recent batch starts getting antsy for theirs, I’m wondering if everyone [...]