Matching update

We received an email from our program coordinator last night....

The server at the agency is down and there is extensive damage to the agency's property...trees and wires are down.  They don't expect to be operational until Friday at the earliest.

The program coordinator was at home Monday night prepared for the shared list release when her power and internet went out at 7:30pm.  (Perfect timing Hurricane Sandy!)

Both of these outages combined left her unable to access the list and match families.  She did say that her power and internet connection at home have been restored.  As of last night, she said there really weren't any children remaining on the shared list that looked like a match for any of her families.  (I believe there are 4 families that she is trying to match this month)  She said she is prepared for the list re-release that will happen Thursday night, and is hopeful she can find some matches that night.  All of the families who "locked" a child's file on Monday night have 72 hours to make a final decision to accept the child or return the file.  So on Thursday night some children's files are added back to the shared list again.

We are anxious for tomorrow night, hopeful that maybe we will be matched and begin to move forward on this journey.