My Adoption Advisor

Just over a decade ago less than 1% of children born to never-married women were placed for adoption. Today’s societal acceptance of single parenting has likely pushed this down even further. As a result, there are many more people looking to adopt than there are women making adoption plans. This makes it even more important that you deeply understand today’s expectant parents and do everything you can to strike a meaningful and genuine connection with them. Anything short of this and you will miss opportunities to build your family.

We combined traditional adoption research with broader, non-adoption research on today’s teens and 20-somethings to bring you this unique course. This approach provides a more robust picture of who you might meet on your adoption journey. Uncover the facts, develop a more effective adoption strategy, and put yourself in a position for a faster match and healthier long-term relationships between your child, his or her birth family, and you.

During this course you will learn about today’s generation of expectant parents and will be better prepared to find and build a relationship with them based on understanding, empathy, and respect. The implications to your adoption profile and networking and advertising efforts will surprise you.

You will learn about:

• the six key influencers that affect whether someone will make an adoption plan and the corresponding characteristics of those who choose adoption
• the Millennial Generation, today’s teens and 20-somethings, and seven tips for connecting specifically with them
• the five fears that you likely share with expectant parents and how understanding this can help you connect with them

Included with this course is the Understanding Expectant Parents Training Guide. This guide provides a framework within which you can take notes during the course (key takeaways are already provided for you), complete the course exercises, and develop ideas for many aspects of your adoption, including your adoption profile and adoption advertising & networking.

Within one business day after your purchase you will receive an email inviting you to view the course materials.

You may access the video for up to 6 months from the date of purchase. If you ever find yourself needing more time, however, please just let us know. We will accommodate any reasonable request.

If you received a coupon code from your adoption professional or adoption-related organization, you may apply it to your purchase at time of checkout.

If you are interested in this course please check out our Adoption Profile Packages, too. They include the course and are offered at a 5-10% discount.

Many families also combine this course with our adoption profile or networking and advertising A La Carte Services.

Price: $99.00

Your adoption profile is the most important element of the entire domestic adoption process because it is the lens through which expectant parents will get to know you. There are thousands of deserving families looking to adopt and your profile MUST stand out from the crowd. If it paints an ineffective picture or looks and feels like all of the others, you will miss opportunities to build your family quickly.

We developed this 65-minute course based on personal experience and input from dozens of adoption professionals across the country, all in an effort to help families create an effective and a truly unique adoption profile. Discover what expectant parents want to know – and how best to communicate it – to increase your chances for a faster match with just the right expectant parents.

As you move through the course and complete the exercises you will jump-start your adoption profile by identifying what you want to communicate and how best to communicate it. You will also learn how to:

• identify the right information to include in your profile by focusing on the two objectives that every profile should strive to achieve
• avoid the two traps that families fall into that cause them to wait for a match much longer than they should
• select the right pictures for your profile by following our two-step process and accomplish something that few profiles even come close to accomplishing
• write captions for your pictures that pull readers deeper into your profile instead of pushing them to the next profile
• tell interesting stories to both engage the reader and increase opportunities for “connections” to develop

Included with this course is the Adoption Profile Training Guide. This guide provides a framework within which you can take notes during the course (key takeaways are already provided for you), complete the course exercises, and develop ideas for your own adoption profile.

You also receive 3 additional articles:

• Fifteen Tips for Overcoming Writer’s Block – Tips to help writing novices and pros alike rediscover their inspiration and confidence and get back on track
• Adoption Profile Questionnaire – Specific questions that every adoption profile should answer
• Picture Perfect for Your Adoption Profile – Guidelines for selecting fantastic adoption profile photos

Within one business day after your purchase you will receive an email inviting you to view the course materials.

You may access the video for up to 6 months from the date of purchase. If you ever find yourself needing more time, however, please just let us know. We will accommodate any reasonable request.

If you received a coupon code from your adoption professional or adoption-related organization, you may apply it to your purchase at time of checkout.

If you are interested in this course please check out our Adoption Profile Packages, too. They include the course and are offered at a 5-10% discount.

Many families also combine this course with our adoption profile or networking and advertising A La Carte Services.

Price: $99.00

If you were looking for a job you would pursue it with all of the intensity you showed when obtaining a degree, buying a house, or even battling infertility. That same focus and determination can lead to a faster adoption.

More families are pursuing domestic adoption because of the changes in international adoption, yet fewer women are making adoption plans. On top of this, more expectant parents who make adoption plans are leveraging their own network and the Internet to find adoptive families. If you are not going full speed to make your adoption happen or if you are not where expectant parents are looking, then your adoption plans are at risk.

To create this course we combined close to 20 years of training, technology, and process expertise with today’s realities of domestic adoption. This training explains to you in a practical and easy to understand way how to network and advertise your desire to adopt. Discover the proven and some newer ways to find and be found by expectant parents considering adoption.

As you progress through the course you will ultimately develop your own networking and advertising plan that is based on your comfort level, budget, and skill set. You will also learn:

• how to leverage more than 30 effective and mostly free networking and advertising ideas
• to move beyond networking and advertising by following our 3-pronged outreach framework
• the 5 effective ways to advertise your desire to adopt on the Internet
• 2 distinct ways to leverage social media powerhouse Facebook
• the one networking lesson that will exponentially increase the number of people helping you match with expectant parents

Included with this course is the Networking & Advertising Training Guide. This guide provides a framework within which you can take notes during the course (key takeaways are already provided for you), complete the course exercises, and develop an effective personal networking and advertising plan.

Within one business day after your purchase you will receive an email inviting you to view the course materials.

You may access the video for up to 6 months from the date of purchase. If you ever find yourself needing more time, however, please just let us know. We will accommodate any reasonable request.

If you received a coupon code from your adoption professional or adoption-related organization, you may apply it to your purchase at time of checkout.

If you are interested in this course, please check out our Adoption Networking & Advertising Packages, too. They include the course and are offered at a 5-10% discount.

Many families also combine this course with our adoption profile or networking and advertising A La Carte Services.

Price: $99.00

After all of that hard work – creating your adoption profile and doing personal networking and advertising, in addition to the efforts of your adoption attorney or agency – you and a potential birth family have found each other. So now what?

Well now you need to develop a trusting relationship built on mutual respect and understanding; however, that’s easier said than done. Just the idea of talking with potential birth families makes most prospective adoptive parents’ heart rate jump. It can be awkward and scary, but it doesn’t have to be.

Communication is critical and helping you communicate with expectant parents is the purpose of this course. Prepare to answer their questions. Develop your own list of questions and learn when it’s OK to ask them. Discover what you can negotiate and how to BUILD relationships while doing so. This course give you the knowledge and confidence you need to take advantage of every opportunity that comes your way.

During this course you will learn how to approach each relationship-building stage – from 1st contact through placement and the end of legal risk. You will be surprised how you can build something so strong from something that starts off so fragile.

You will learn about:

• questions to ask expectant parents considering adoption, how and when to ask them, and what NOT to ask
• the 50 common and not-so-common questions that expectant parents may ask YOU
• 7 topics that you must be prepared to discuss with prospective birth families
• a 3-step process for negotiating with expectant parents that helps you BUILD your relationship with them – not add stress to it

Included with this course is the Tips for Talking With Expectant Parents Training Guide. This guide provides a framework within which you can take notes during the course (key takeaways are already provided for you) and complete the course exercises. Additionally, this guide also includes more than 80 questions that many prospective adoptive parents are interested in asking potential birth families and 50 questions that expectant parents may ask you.

Within one business day after your purchase you will receive an email inviting you to view the course materials.

You may access the video for up to 6 months from the date of purchase. If you ever find yourself needing more time, however, please just let us know. We will accommodate any reasonable request.

If you received a coupon code from your adoption professional or adoption-related organization, you may apply it to your purchase at time of checkout.

Many families combine this course with either one of our adoption profile packages or one of our networking and advertising packages. You may also combine this with any of our A La Carte Services.

Please check them out.

Price: $99.00

You can blame the economy, greed, the Internet, or anything else you want to, but the unfortunate reality is that there are “adoption professionals” and “birth mothers” out there who are trying to defraud you. The good news is that there are MANY more who are genuine, honest, and trustworthy. The challenge is to know which type of person you’re working with so you can avoid the emotional and financial pain that results from being defrauded.

The content from this course originates from adoptive parents that experienced fraud firsthand. The course shares with you what they wish they would have known when they were going through the process — what would have prevented them from being a victim of fraud.

You’ll learn how to identify the warning signs that something may not be what it appears to be. You’ll learn low-tech and high-tech ways to verify that what people are telling you is in fact true. And finally, you’ll learn specific, practical steps that if taken, will dramatically decrease your chances of being defrauded.

This course was the result of a collaboration between My Adoption Advisor and the wonderful people at AdoptionScams.net.

During this course you will learn how to spot the warning signs that an adoption professional or a prospective birth parent is not being honest with you and how to dig deeper through research and verification techniques to increase your chances for a safer adoption.

You will learn about:

• 24 red flags associated with what we call The Unprofessional Professional, The High Risk Professional, and The “Too Good To Be True” Professional
• 23 red flags tied to potential birth mothers
• 26 high tech and low tech ways to increase your confidence that the people you are working with are being truthful with you
• 6 simple steps that if implemented will dramatically decrease your chances of being defrauded

Included with this course is the Identifying Red Flags & Avoiding Scams Training Guide. This guide provides a framework within which you can take notes during the course (key takeaways are already provided for you) and complete the course exercises. Additionally, this guide also includes tons of Internet resources, interview questions to ask your adoption professional, and much more.

Within one business day after your purchase you will receive an email inviting you to view the course materials.

You may access the video for up to 6 months from the date of purchase. If you ever find yourself needing more time, however, please just let us know. We will accommodate any reasonable request.

If you received a coupon code from your adoption professional or adoption-related organization, you may apply it to your purchase at time of checkout.

If you are interested in this course please check out our Adoption Networking & Advertising Packages, too. They include the course and are offered at a 5-10% discount.

Many families also combine this course with our adoption profile or networking and advertising A La Carte Services.

Please check them out.

Price: $99.00