Kidsave International

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My review of Kidsave leaves me feeling immensely conflicted. The purpose and mission statement of Kidsave is one that I not only believe in, but one that I feel passionate about. The vast majority of the staff at Kidsave, from the wonderful volunteers to the CEO are good, caring and wonderful people. My wife and I have enjoyed the events, the children are all great and the concept of building a relationship with children before adopting them is absolutely brilliant.
Unfortunately, it's a system that is flawed, with far too few checks and balances. Because of this lack of oversight, the intentions of one Kidsave employee named Lauren Reicher-Gordon (who had misrepresented herself to us as a county worker) was so shocking and overwhelmingly negative that we very nearly gave up on the road to adoption.
 
My wife and I are an upper middle class, happily married couple who are unable to bear biological children. We had first reached out to Kidsave in late March or the first week of April to schedule ourselves for April's orientation and training, but our communications had been completely ignored. It was only after getting the president of Kidsave involved that we were able to begin the process.
Since that time, we were repeatedly harassed by Lauren Reicher-Gordon and dissuaded from being a part of the Kidsave program, as well as becoming a resource family altogether. We were criticized, spoken down to and intentionally given incorrect information. This culminated in a phone call in early June where we were threatened by Lauren Reicher-Gordon with unnamed 'consequences' if we attended resource family training. She then lied and said that we'd signed up for a $500 per ticket gala event that same day.
Lauren Reicher-Gordon's behavior was so outrageous that we reported her to DCFS and found out that she was lying about being a county worker. It is dangerous to have your experience be guided by the actions, intentions and personal prejudice of just one person.