Considering Domestic Adoption? December 6, 2008

Considering Domestic Adoption?

Come join in this interactive educational adoption seminar led by Kelli Suchy. A mid-life adoptive mom to a wonderful 4-year-old daughter who with her husband Andy went through 6 failed IVF cycles and 2 pregnancy losses before making the decision to create their family via domestic open adoption.

"What I want you to take away from this seminar: real life information about adoption from someone who has been through it. Resources to guide you in making decisions to form an adoption plan. But the most important piece for me is to have you leave with a lot of HOPE as we move forward into the 2008 holiday season. You will enter 2009 with the beginnings of a plan to create your own family by adoption as we did if adoption is the right family building option for you."
To be covered:
1. Moving forward from pursuing fertility treatments to pursuing adoption as a way to create or add on to your family
2. Open, independent adoption - what they look like from all 3 sides of the triad - birth mother, child and potential adoptive parents
3. Adoption agencies, attorneys, facilitators, adoption coaches - what role do each of them play in this process
4. Thinking about what level of risk you are willing to take regarding drug and alcohol exposure in pregnancy and some recent research statistics to take home to research
5. Costs of adopting in the U.S. including various funding available and IRS tax rebates of adoption costs
6. Outreach/Advertising - will you do it on your own or hire someone? What to expect
7. What to do with yourself as you wait to be selected by a birth mother
8. Expectations, myths and realities of bonding with a non-biological child
9. How and when to talk to your child about being adopted
10. Changes in the works for independent adoption laws
11. Various resources - books, support groups in the area and online, agencies, attorneys, facilitators and adoption coaches I have personally worked with.

$40.00.

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