Customized adoption plan:
The most important part of your adoption plan is having a plan. There are many options in adoption in this day that can help you with the reality of knowing that someone else will be raising your child. With over 16 years of adoption experience and working with hundreds of birth mothers, the staff of All for You can assist you in making a plan that fits best for you and your baby. Placing your baby for adoption will probably be the most difficult thing you will ever do. Having a customized plan to reflect what you want will make it a little easier to do what you feel is best for your baby.
Financial Assistance:
Most states will allow adoptive parents to assist a birth mother with pregnancy related living expenses. A coordinator will discuss with you what your expenses are and how you are currently covering them. The coordinator will then develop a new budget to reflect how adoptive parents might be able to assist you in meeting your financial needs. All expenses must be pregnancy related, necessary living expenses and cannot be anything of value. The law is structured in this way so you are never put in a position of being coerced or enticed to place your child for adoption. You must first do what is best for your child and then receive the assistance you need if you need it. Let us assist you in getting the things you need to take good care of yourself.
Counseling:
All for You offers three plans for counseling. You may choose to be counseled by one of our social workers at no cost to you, you may choose to select your own support counselor and have the cost of those sessions covered by the adoptive parents or you may want us to help you find counseling in your area where the cost is based on your income. Your support counselor will assist you in whichever plan fits you the best. We highly encourage you to select one plan for counseling. An unwanted pregnancy and placing your child for adoption is a difficult thing to go through and you need help working through all of the emotions that go along with it. All for You offers lifetime counseling with our staff, at no cost to you regardless of what plan you choose.
Excellent families for your child:
Most of the staff at All for You has been personally touched by adoption. For that reason we take the utmost care in selecting what families we work with. We use the highest standards in our selection process so you can be assured that your child has the best possible family. We select only families that have a deep respect and understanding of what birth parents must sacrifice in order to give their child a wonderful life.
Legal Assistance:
The staff at All for You, believe that it is of utmost importance that you be represented by your own attorney. We want to make sure that you understand all of the rights you have concerning your child and your adoption plan. We only work with the very best attorneys that are sensitive to the choice you are making for your child. If you are afraid or feel intimidated by meeting with an attorney an adoption support counselor can be present with you at this meeting if you would like. Our attorneys and the court system only care about the plan of adoption you have for your child. So if you have had legal issues in the past or if you have had a bad experience with an attorney you can be assured that the focus of this interaction will be on your adoption plan and not on the past.
Post Placement Services:
After you place your baby with a family it will probably be important to you to receive pictures and updates of your child. You might have even worked out a more open adoption plan. We will assist you in ongoing communication between you and the adoptive parents if that was part of your adoption plan. We will assist you by keeping accurate records of any contact from you or the adoptive parents regarding your child. If you ever want to know how your child is doing you can always contact the agency to get an update. If we have information on your child we will share it with you. If we do not, we will contact the adoptive parents to see if we can get an update for you. You can rest at ease knowing that we will be available for you and your baby to assist in the reunification process when your child is grown.
Medical Assistance:
All for You will assist you with finding a doctor you can be comfortable with if you do not already have one chosen. In many cases a support counselor can accompany you to the doctor and be present during labor and delivery if you would like that.
In addition All for You has an on-staff Registered Nurse educated in the field of Pregnancy, Labor and Delivery and Post Partum and Newborn Care. You can access our nurse to ask questions regarding your pregnancy or labor and delivery any time by letting your support counselor know that you wish to talk with the nurse.