Option #1: A Developmental Psychologist we met, who is doing our required assessment, may be qualified to teach us the necessary topics. She is also Russian and certified as a Psychologist in Russia, so that's a big plus. The down side is we are trying to find out if it will be accepted, and we are having trouble having the right people connect with one another. Also, we don't know what she would charge us. For the assessment she's charging us $1800.00 . . . we were floored!
Option #2: Our agency is working with a social worker in their area to create a program that would satisfy the educational requirement. But we don't know when they will have it done and we would likely have to travel to them to take it.They are also closing for a week to take holidays, so that means everything will stand still for a little bit.
Option #3: We travel to the other agency and take their course, which runs 3 times per year. Their course spans 2 weekends and is accepted by Russia. The downside? We'd have to travel and stay there for a week and a half.
What is quite frustrating is that no one said anything about this requirement until the end of February. Until that point we were under the impression that the education training we had done with our province was sufficient. If we had known we would have been able to work on this and organize it months ago.
So where does this put us in the process? We need to have the education portion complete and our psychological assessment done (for which we should have the report on April 5th) and then our file can be sent off.
So it looks like at least the end of April (*grumble*) before that can be done. We had thought we'd be registered by April 1st, but, alas, we are not so lucky. So it will likely be June before we are registered.
So that is our update - I wish it had a sunnier tone to it!
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