The CCAA has changed the box to show that they have reviewed files through April 30, 2007. A reminder: This means they have reviewed those files and moved the ones that are okay into the holding area between review and matching… and placed those with questions in a stack waiting for responses. It does not [...]

I think we all learned a few things during the whole SARS thing. Whether that helps us deal with this outbreak of Swine Flu remains to be seen. One thing I learned was that I should start with the CDC and the WHO. I did not rely on them exclusively, but well over half of [...]

There appear to be six agencies who are actively finding reasons to not pay the post placement deposits. Four of those agencies do seem to be eventually refunding them after a long run-around. Based on a lot of correspondence, here is my advice: If you are using a social worker that does not work for [...]

If you are still waiting for a NSN referral and do not expect to be expedited, please take a moment to record your vote in our latest daily LID poll. You can get to it here. If you were given a new LID after being questioned in the review room, please give us the new [...]

There are now two agencies who sound hopeful about the 14th being included. Neither agency is saying “the cut off is the 14th”, but both agencies are basically telling their 3/14 families that they “think” they are going to be in this time. I’ll give it an R2.

I don’t see any cut off rumors this morning. As for the matching rumor, there really isn’t a standard amount of time between the “they are matching” rumor and referral arrival. We’ve had them arrive the same day the rumor hit, and we’ve had it take two weeks for referrals to arrive after the rumor [...]