Search and Reunion services for both open and closed adoptions can be facilitated by Adoptions Together. Through this service, clients can work with a trained counselor to connect with their child’s birth family. It is essential to Adoptions Together that the relationship between birth and adoptive families is nurtured in a way unique to their needs. Because of these unique needs and the laws surrounding Search and Reunion, the counselor collaborating with you on this case will do a full needs assessment for your family and your child’s birth family. This service is geared towards families who do not have direct contact with their child’s birth family. The following is included in this service:

• Zoom or phone intake meeting with a trained counselor.
• Extensive case research prior to contact with the birth family.
• Phone updates regarding the status of the case.
• Three attempts to contact the birth parent over phone, email, and/or mail.
• Locating the birth parent’s most recent contact information by online investigative services if necessary.
• Zoom or phone intake meeting facilitated by a counselor with your child’s birth parent.
• Mediation of contact between birth and adoptive families (determined by case).
• Guidance around initial communication correspondence between birth parent and adoptive family/adoptee.
• Facilitation by a counselor of a meeting with adoptive family and birth parent, if appropriate.
• Membership to Child Connect, which is available until the adoptee is 18.

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This service will provide you and your family with the opportunity to have a trained counselor help facilitate meetings with your child’s birth family. We offer meeting facilitation for families who have had contact with their child’s birth parent in the past. The following is included in this service:

• One pre-meeting phone consultation.
• Case research to locate birth parents if necessary.
• Three good-attempts to contact birth parent over phone, email, and/or email.
• Coordination of meeting logistics if necessary.
• Facilitation of a meeting with your child’s birth parent (price to be determined based on time and location).
• Membership to Child Connect, which is available until the adoptee is 18.

Contact Mediation services begin at $200. Please reach out for more information.

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This service helps to link adoptees, birth families, and adoptive families together if they have lost contact. The following is included in this service:

• Two phone coaching/consultation sessions.
• Case research prior to contact with birth family.
• Locating the birth parent’s most recent contact information by utilizing on-line investigative services (if necessary).
• Three attempts to contact birth parent over phone, mail, and/or email.
• Guidance around initial communication correspondence between birth parent and adoptive family.
• Membership to Child Connect, which is available until the adoptee is 18.

Email Claire for more information.

Contact Claire