Good Day

Today we had a Q&A session with one of the agencies we had previously researched.  We asked about their program and learned more about their counseling philosophy which includes their approach to providing support for birth families, adoptive families, and children before, during, and after the adoption process.  The agency is national, but some local offices, including the one we met with, are in the process of developing a more formal post-placement support structure.  This is very attractive to us since we want to do what we can to make sure that the birth families in particular are given full support, as we can only imagine how emotional and life changing placing a child for adoption would be.

They did ask if we've been in touch with other agencies, so we mentioned the few we have researched and shared that we started the process with another agency, which it turned out not to be a good fit.  For that reason we are doing some more research as we look for a new agency.  At this time they did not probe for more information about our experience with the first agency, which was refreshing since we'd like the opportunity for them to get to know us first, before the other judgements come up.  I imagine they will ask more eventually.

We are continuing to research other avenues, but are also planning to attend this agency's 8 hour intro/training session mid-March.  After this session families are given the option of officially starting the paperwork, so we'll see where we are at in a few weeks.

All for now,
L