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- Counseling
to resolve immediate physical, environmental, and emotional needs
and problems.
- Assistance
to extended family members in dealing with the crisis of an unplanned
pregnancy.
- Provision
of information and referral to appropriate community resources
to meet immediate and long-term goals such as:
-- Medical service
-- Residential placement
-- Educational goals
- Counseling
to enable birth parents to make final decisions regarding their
own and their child's future including:
-- Assurance these decisions have
been reached without coercion
from any outside force
-- Offering adoption placement options
that may include degrees of participation
of birth parents through openness
or open adoption
-- Making known to birth parents the valid
alternatives available to them, including
parenting, adoptive placement,
and temporary foster care
- Assertive
outreach efforts to encourage birth fathers to participate in
planning for their child
- Respecting
the birth parent's desire for continuity of identity of the child's
cultural, religious, and racial background
- Enabling
clients to gain insight into their manner of forming and sustaining
relationships
- Providing
timely information upon request, as to the well-being of their
child following the adoptive placement
- Providing
information about state laws or regulations regarding state registries,
open records, etc.
- Post-placement
counseling services to help birth parents cope with feeling of
loss and grief.
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