Bulletin Profiles...

My husband and I were sitting here this morning having our morning coffee and enjoying our conversation time.  One of our topics was the bulletin.  Here are our thoughts:

We were discussing how the bulletin doesn't get updated very often.  With us being in the process of looking (waiting) for our next child(ren), we find it odd that the bulletin profiles are so very out of date.  We were pondering the fact that families who are profiled and waiting have to update their homestudies once a year, yet there are children on the bulletin who haven't been updated in 5 or 6 years!  How is this right?

For example, there is one particular child whose profile starts with "So and so is about to turn 1! Imagine all the milestones you would get to witness and enjoy with them." When you look up to the birthdate that child is going to turn 6 this summer!  How is it right that that child's profile is 5 years or more out of date?! (Summarized)

Now understand that we understand that ALL workers have large caseloads and are very busy, but they have to check on these children at least once a year, couldn't they then take a picture and update the profile?  Then submit the revised profile for upload?  If families have to keep their homestudies up to date why shouldn't the children's profiles be up to date?  Wouldn't it be easier to find families for these beautiful, waiting children when the prospective parents have current information about their needs?

Even at matching events the children who are profiled (some not all) are quite often presented with out of date profiles.
For example, we were recently at a matching event and one of the children profiled was 10 or 11 years old but their printed profile was from the age of 4 or 5 years old.  I ask you, how is this right?  How are you going to find families for these children when you aren't presenting current information?

Speaking from personal experience my husband and I were considering some children and their proposal package contained tonnes and tonnes of information but the information wasn't current.  The children were 8 and 10 years old, but the information stopped when they were 3 and 5 years old.  Even in a proposal package the information wasn't kept current.  We pointed that out to our then worker and she went and got us the more current information.  Unfortunately those children weren't a fit for us and we weren't a fit for them.  They have since been adopted by a wonderful family! Praise the Lord!

So, I'm just sitting here wondering how I can go about helping the children of our province that are waiting for forever families get there.  Is there any way that I can help the workers?  If there is, please let me know.  I'm more than willing to do whatever it takes to get BC's Waiting Children into their forever families.

Have a great day and God Bless you all!