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 for families who have not had direct contact with their child’s birth family. If the child’s adoption was finalized in the state of Maryland, the adoptee must be 21 years old to search. If the child’s adoption was finalized in the state of Virginia, the adoptee must be 18 years old to search.

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.
• Locating the birth parent’s most recent contact information by online investigative services, if necessary.
• Updates regarding the status of the case.
• Attempts to contact the birth parent(s) over social media, phone, email, and/or mail.
• 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.

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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.

The following is included in this service:

• Pre-meeting phone consultation.
• Case research to locate birth parents, if necessary.
• Three good attempts to contact birth parent over social media, 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).

Fees for Meeting Facilitation:

• Coordination of visits: $25
• In‑office during business hours: $75/hour
• Off‑site during business hours: $75/hour + travel time & mileage
• After hours: $125/hour + travel time & mileage

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This service helps to link adoptees, birth families, and adoptive families together if they have lost contact, but previously have had contact in the past.

The following is included in this service:

• 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.
• Attempts to contact birth parent over social media, phone, mail, and/or email.
• Guidance around initial communication correspondence between birth parent and adoptive family.

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