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Adopting through Beginnings
- Step by Step 1. Attend a PRIDE pre-service training program. As of January 1, 2008, PRIDE training is mandatory for all couples adopting in Ontario. 2. Have your home study completed by a private Adoption Practitioner. A home study is an in-depth assessment of your family and may take several months to complete. http://www.gov.on.ca/children/english/resources/ child/STEL02_179892.html 3. Read all you can about adoption; learn about open adoption. 4. Begin work on your profile, describing your family through words and pictures in a booklet or scrapbook that will be shown to birth parents. (Create your Profile) 5. Register with Beginnings – you can do this at any point during steps 1 through 4, once you have decided to pursue adoption through Beginnings. (Register with Beginnings) |
6. Once your home study is complete and you have a draft copy of your profile, you are ready to come in for a Consultation as the final step in moving to our Active List of prospective adoptive couples. (Consultation) 7. Once on the Active List, your profile will be considered for presentation to birth parents based on your range of acceptance and the “best fit” birth parents are hoping for. Beginnings has around 70 couples who are ready to adopt on our Active List at any given time. 8. Once a birth parent has selected a couple on the basis of their profile, Beginnings’ counselors facilitate a meeting between the birth parents and the adoptive couple so they can get acquainted before each party makes a final decision about proceeding. Your Private Practitioner is encouraged to attend. 9. If both parties agree to proceed, they usually meet on several occasions before the birth to work out a mutually agreed upon plan for contact after the birth of the baby. 10. Beginnings prepares and submits a Proposal to the Ministry of Children and Youth Services regarding the proposed placement. A Proposal is a comprehensive package of all the required documents. It must be reviewed by the Ministry staff and approval given before a child is placed in an adoptive family. |
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