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Child Placement Fee
($9,600)
Following are some of the services covered in this fee:
- Counseling birthparents and their families wherever they are located. Providing free counseling as long as needed and desired after the adoption
- Finding housing for birthmothers
- Transporting birthmothers to doctor visits and other appointments
- Helping birthmothers obtain services and benefits such as Homebound Instruction and Medicaid
- Accompanying birthmothers to the hospital and working with doctors and hospital staff at delivery
- Completing medical and social background investigations on the child, including maternal and paternal histories
- Witnessing the signing of consents and relinquishments for adoption by birthparents
- Working with the attorney who finalizes the adoption
- Providing an Orientation Meeting for adoptive parents
- Counseling and supporting adoptive parents
- Facilitating contact between the adoptive and birthparents after the adoption
- Providing outreach to birthmothers
- Administrative costs of the agency
If the adoptive family locates their own birthmother and Christian Family Services facilitates the
placement (Identified Adoption), the Child Placement Fee is reduced
substantially.
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