The only thing I see new this morning is a few agencies trying to reassure families that this is just a delay and does not mean the program is ending. Most agencies are still saying they don’t know anything about when referrals may arrive, though. And a few are still letting families know they have [...]

The rumored speed up from the beginning of the year said it should happen this fall. A lot of agencies were saying the same thing – that the CCAA said they would refer more babies in 2009 than they did in 2008, and that the numbers should pick up in the fall. I’m now hearing [...]

As I’ve said before, I view my role here as reporting any rumor that seems to be legitimately “out there”. That means I’d rather have more than one agency saying something before I report it, but if I have multiple people reporting something from a single agency that I respect then I’ll report something from [...]

I don’t see anything new about the cut off this morning. FWIW, I’m still seeing people who are hearing from their agency about things speeding up a little. No one is saying anything is going to speed up this month, more like it is on the horizon. If I had to guess, based on what [...]

I reported on January 15th that the “the general atmosphere at CCAA is better than it has been in a long time, and that there is hope that things may not be so dismal in the near future”. I also reported this was coming from multiple places, and that while we’ve had these kinds of [...]

At least twice over the past couple of years we’ve seen rumors of “the CCAA going out to the orphanages”, with the intent of increasing paperwork that is coming in to them. Once, we were told that the SWI Directors were cautious about sending paperwork in after the Hunan scandal, that the directors didn’t like [...]