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Creating Your Profile

Your Profile is the booklet that that Licensees and Agencies will be presenting to birth parents choosing the adoptive family for their child. It may include a Birth Parent Letter speaking directly to the birth parents either as part of the Profile or as a separate document.

Here are some pointers to remember when writing your profile:

• Put a great photo of yourselves on the cover; the more recent, the better. Also put your first
names on this front cover page
• Remember that you are writing to birth parents of all ages, education levels, and backgrounds
• Use simple writing style, a readable font size, and include a variety of photos that reflect
your lifestyle, your home, yard, community and the important people in your life. Some
Licensees don’t like you to include photos of your wedding but a wedding photo is fine for us
since this is an important life milestone
• Choose flattering photos
• Keep it non-identifying with no last names or specific company you work for, to give you
some privacy until you decide to share more when you meet the birth parents
• Refer to the child as “your child” not “our” child
• Try to be conversational, this is not a resume.
• A note about SIZE: if your profile is too big, it will not fit in filing cabinets and briefcases, and
will not be easy to mail.

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