Open Adoption Process

There can never be too many people to love a child. In an open adoption, birthparents and prospective adoptive families meet, select each other and work cooperatively toward the placement of the child. Each situation is unique and can be tailored to what works for the person(s) making the adoption plan for their child and the family that they choose to parent their child. People who are considering open adoption for their child are at no time obligated to make an adoption plan for their child.

Open adoption relationships are built on:

• Respect
• Honesty
• Trust
• Communication
• Various types of ongoing contact between birth and adoptive families

With an understanding that open adoption is:

• Not shared parenting
• A legal process

If you would like to consider making an open adoption plan, your CHSFS pregnancy counselor can help you learn more about open adoption, help you decide the best level of openness for you and your baby, and advocate for you throughout the process. Your pregnancy counselor will be a support to you regardless of what choice you make.

A trained pregnancy counselor is prepared to listen, and to support you through each step of this journey.

Waiting Parents in our Domestic Infant Open Adoption Program are eager to provide a caring, loving home for a child. 

The families in our program are dedicated to creating an open adoption relationship. They have attended pre-adoption education classes and been approved for adoption by Children's Home Society & Family Services social workers.

View Waiting Parent Profiles to see profiles of Waiting Parents who have given CHSFS permission to post their information on our Web site.  To learn about additional families, please contact CHSFS to meet with a pregnancy counselor.

BPCS@chsfs.org
651.646.7771 or toll free 800.952.9302.
From 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

After hours call 651.324.2095.