As prospective adoptive parents, we
provide you with the following services:
- Initial meeting to discuss the adoption
process and answer your questions.
- Separate meetings (personally
or by telephone) with each birth parent to determine their
commitment level.
Once we initiate contact between a birth parent
and the adoptive parents, other services we offer include:
- Referrals to caring counselors for the birth
parent, if needed or requested.
- Coordinating meetings between the
adoptive parents and the birth parents.
- Obtaining medical authorizations
from the birth parent.
- Assistance in creating a hospital plan
for the birth parent and adoptive parents.
- Coordination with
hospital staff regarding the birth parent’s
stay, as well as the birth parent’s and the child’s
release.
- Assistance in gathering all medical and hospital
records.
- Gathering background information on the birth
parent, including health, ethnic, and social history.
- Upon request
of the adoptive parents, assistance in arranging for drug and
HIV screening of the birth
parent.
- Assisting the birth parent with transportation
to and from treating physicians and hospitals.
- Meeting
with the adoptive parents and the birth parent at the hospital
after the child’s birth
(unless distance does not make this feasible).
- Follow-up
telephone calls with the birth parent and the adoptive parents.
- All legal work needed for the adoption to be completed by the
agency or attorney in your
home
state.
- Assistance obtaining approval from
the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children
(ICPC).
- Access to Federal tax information
regarding adoption.
- Coordination assistance between birth
mother, birth father, attorney, agency,
counselors, and adoptive parents.
We also provide assistance with:
- Information
about availability of children in particular localities, including
the critical need of parents for some of these children.
- How
to collect appropriate documentation.
- Preparation of certain
documents on behalf of clients.
- Examination of all required documents
for sufficiency.
- Assistance with certain authentication
procedures, as required by the child’s home state.
- Submission of documents
to appropriate authorities.
- Keeping applicants informed on the
progress of their applications.
- Informing applicants of the
child who has been proposed for adoption by the appropriate
organization in the
child’s
home state.
- Providing advice about traveling to
the child’s home
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