Services For Adoptive Parents
MyDream Adoptions offers a number of helpful services to navigate the adoption process. Contact one of our case managers today to learn how we can help you.
Services Provided For You:
Services are provided to all parties throughout the adoption process and beyond finalization. MyDream Adoptions will support clients and adoptive child if ever counseling is needed post adoption.
*All information for Adoptive parent(s) is held confidential unless written permission is granted from the necessary party.*
Our Services
Domestic Infant Adoption
MyDream Adoptions works with biological parent(s) and adoptive parent(s) who currently live in the United States. Most adoptive parents match with a biological parent during pregnancy and take custody of the infant immediately upon discharge from the hospital. MyDream Adoptions also has the opportunity to place children of any age after birth
Home Study
A screening process of the background and lives of adoptive parent(s) and assessment of the home. The home study is required for all domestic adoptions and must be completed prior to an adoption. This process involves obtaining the necessary clearances from the required states, reference letters from people who can attest to the adoptive parent(s) character, and medical reports to deem the adoptive parent(s) are physically capable of adopting a child, along with all other necessary documents. All this
information is combined into a written report by the caseworker and submitted to the necessary court upon finalization of the adoption. Home studies can be expedited in less than 60 days if necessary. See our home study page for more information.
Education Meeting and Education of Potential Adoptive Parent(s)
We take great pride in educating prospective adoptive clients in their adoption options.MyDream Adoptions will help and assist all prospective adoptive clients find the best adoption plan to fit their needs. Those clients who choose to move forward with MyDream Adoptions will be provided with an in-depth adoptive parent seminar to explain the step by step process of the agency and adoption.MyDream Adoptions will review financial options, grants, loans and adoption subsidies.
Client Casework
Direct support by the caseworker for the individual or family being served. The caseworker will guide the client in their decisions that will benefit the client during the entire adoption process. From the time the client begins working with MyDream Adoptions through finalization of their adoption, the caseworker is there to provide full support for any and all adoption needs. While the client caseworker will provide emotional support throughout the adoption process, if further support or counseling is necessary, an appropriate counselor in their general area will be recommended. The personalized attention and sensitivity from your caseworker makes the adoption process a much smoother one.
Co-ordination of Adoption
The collaborative effort of MyDream Adoptions’ staff to facilitate and support an adoption plan with the appropriate agency, attorney or adoption professional. Each adoption plan is unique and will be evaluated and executed on a case by case basis. This includes providing the necessary documents to the appropriate party for completion of the adoption. Clients will be provided with a written agreement stating the responsibility of each agency.
Coordination of Legal Services
The collaborative effort of MyDream Adoptions’ staff to coordinate legal counsel necessary in terminating biological parent’s rights and finalizing the adoption. MyDream Adoptions works directly with Jim & Rogers Berlin, a family Law firm in Gilbert County, AZ, to terminate parental rights and finalize adoptions for those clients without their own attorney.
Discharge and Hospital Stay
This will be facilitated by the agency required by Arizona state law and the hospital policy. MyDream Adoptions’ staff will be at the hospital after delivery and discharge when location and circumstances permit. Even if MyDream Adoptions is not present with the biological parent and/or client, a staff member will explain what to expect, discuss the hospital adoption and discharge procedures with the client and inform them of any legal requirements they will need to prepare for.
Adoptive parents support Group
Going through the adoption process can be a stressful time on the adoptive parents. MyDream Adoptions offers a few options for support beyond your caseworker and the MyDream staff. We can connect you to a support group in your area that you can meet with personally, or an on-line support group. We also have internal support groups with both past and present adoptive clients to offer you guidance along the way from both someone who has been in your shoes and someone who is there now with you.
Consents
Consents to an adoption are executed differently in every state. It varies from the execution of consent signing, revocation period and who must serve the relinquishments. It is a written statement witnessed and/or notarized and submitted to the court system.
MyDream Adoptions will work appropriately to coordinate consents for biological mothers. MyDream Adoptions will coordinate with other states’ legal counsel or agency, if applicable, and serve them in the manner in which the appropriate state requires.
Counseling
MyDream Adoptions has a supportive licensed counselor available to help with any pregnancy related education, life skills, adoption, family options and/or community resources. Our counselor is able to help and provide support at any point before, during or after your adoption.
Interstate Compact for Placement of Children (ICPC) services
When needed, MyDream Adoptions will prepare and send the ICPC packet to the ICPC compact administrator in the state of Arizona formally requesting the placement of child to the client in the receiving state. State requirements vary from state to state in which MyDream Adoptions will communicate with the receiving state’s caseworker to ensure that the required documents for each state are included with ICPC packet. If Arizona is the receiving state, MyDream Adoptions coordinates directly with the
caseworker in the sending state to discuss any issues related to the state’s requirements for services and support during the adoption, post adoption services for the family and child returning to the state.
Post- Placement Service
Completion of the required number of follow up visits after a child has been placed in the adoptive parent(s) home. This includes the medical reports from the child’s pediatrician, adjustment of family, developmental and medical progress of the child and overall well-being of the child and placement.
Biological parent Searches/Adoptee Searches
MyDraem Adoptions has trained professionals who are court appointed searchers for biological parents and adoptees. They are trained in PAIR (Arizona Department of Child Safety) and various ways to appropriately contact the biological parent or adoptee.
F.F.L program (Family For Life)
Advertising program offered by MyDream Adoptions that serves biological mothers and adoptive parents with all the options and guidance in making their adoption plan.MyDream Adoptions will complete this process through internet advertising, paper advertising, referrals, community outreach and other various avenues.
Once a biological parent has decided to move forward with the adoption process and their consents have been signed to share information with adoptive parent(s), MyDream Adoptions will gather profiles that fit the preferences of the biological parents. These profiles are then presented to the biological parents for them to choose the most suitable family for their future child.
Once the adoptive family or individual has been chosen by the biological parent, the family will be provided with background and medical information on biological parent(s) and child to assist in understanding the child’s genetic makeup. If an appropriate family or individual is not available with MyDream Adoptions, the agency will use the extensive adoption professional community to locate the desired family for the biological mother and child.