Kinship Center in Orange County, CA. is the worst!

Don’t go to Kinship Adoption Center in Orange County, California.

They have an agenda.

You will have an initial interview with Melissa Dodson.  She will ask you what kind of child you want, and she will say, “We have that here,” to every single request and concern you raise.

As you go through the classes, they will steer you away from your original request and push you to accept:

·      Children over the age of three.

·      Black boys

·      Special Needs (Children on medication such as Ritalin or Lithium, or those children with physical disabilities such as cleft-palette or missing limbs.)

·      Sibling-groups, ranging from 2 to 5 siblings. (Sib-sets.)

They will refer to these children as “our” children.  They will say, “Our children are more impacted here.” 

That’s a lie. Kinship Center has access to all different kinds of children.  They will point out (accurately) that they choose children from all the way up to Northern California, all the way down to San Diego.

But they will ignore your carefully filled out TEN-PAGE questionnaire, and try and force you to take children THEY want you to take.

Kinship Center is specifically choosing black boys for reasons of their own.  They deny it, and no one knows why, but herein might lay the reason:

Sharon Roszia, the Senior Social worker, and Debra Silverstein, the Vice President, are white women who adopted and raised African-American boys into (presumably) productive African-American men.  So they are determined that everyone who passes through Kinship should do the same.

The other reason is – possibly – money.  They are a private agency, and perhaps they receive more money be placing hard-to-place children.

This is, at best, unethical; at worst, illegal.  All of it would be legal and above-board if they stated upfront that they will cherry-pick black boys, older children, disabled children, and large sib-sets. 

         Kinship:  You will take total of 48 hours worth of classes spread out over four months (6 hours a day, times eight Saturdays).  You will receive a certificate at the end crediting you with 24 hours of classes.

         Kinship charges for everything.  

         Initial meeting and registration: $650.00

         Classes: $650.00

         Post Placement visit and report for one child: $2000.00

         Foster Home Certification: $150.00

        

         Kinship asks for many more hours of post-placement time to keep your foster license up to date. 

         Kinship’s attitude is: You need us – forever!

         To ensure that you need them forever, (and keep paying, and paying and paying some more) they will grossly mismatch you with children, which – in the end, no matter how much counseling you receive – will hurt both you, and the child.

         When my spouse and I didn’t waiver in the child we knew we could raise best, Sharon Roszia kicked us out of the course, and did so illegally.  She was supposed to put it IN WRITING why we were “kicked out.”  She didn’t.

All of the Social Workers are in on it:  Gina Rothermel, Tricia Tiner, Brit Johansson, and Sherry Gimple, the liaison.

Don’t go to Kinship to adopt.

1504 Brookhollow Dr Ste 118 Santa Ana, CA 92705

(714) 979-2365

1504 Brookhollow Dr Ste 118 Santa Ana, CA 92705

(714) 979-2365

1504 Brookhollow Dr Ste 118 Santa Ana, CA 92705

(714) 979-2365

1504 Brookhollow Dr Ste 118 Santa Ana, CA 92705

(714) 979-2365