When beginning your adoption journey, you may find the adoption process quite daunting. So many forms and tasks to complete and how do you reach and communicate with birth parents? You are probably wondering what you should do next. CAIRS Solutions has several products to assist you along the way to make your experience easier and less intimidating.
MyAdoptionPortal
- The process, your required tasks, and statuses are clearly noted in the portal keeping you on target and the process transparent
- Single entries for your information- you fill in the blanks once not hundreds of times. For example, you need only type your name once, not over and over again
- Secure communication directly with your caseworker
- Ability to upload electronic versions of items instead of driving them to your adoption provider or snail mailing
- All your private, personal information is secure and presented only to the responsible parties at your agency or attorney’s office
ParentFinder
Your primary goal is to adopt a child and ParentFinder can help. Using state-of-the-art technology, ParentFinder provides you with the ability to create multi-media rich profiles that birth parents can search and view, while also establishing a safe and secure way to communicate with potential birth parents and exchange information. Most importantly, ParentFinder is designed with today’s birth mother demographic in mind knowing she is also searching on the Internet hoping to find the perfect adoptive family for her child. ParentFinder gives you the much needed ability to blog and post videos of your family that searching birth parents can view online through various social media tools.
- Self-service environment, empowering you to take control of your adoption search and marketing
- Ability to create personalized profiles, letters, photos, videos, and journals
- Social networking options utilizing Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
- Robust ‘Contact Us’ options (chat, email, and click-to-call)
ChildConnect
ChildConnect was designed to maintain the connection between adoptive families and birth parents preserving this important relationship at the level specified by the users. Whether your child’s adoption is fully open, semi-open, or more closed, ChildConnect supports the commitment you made to keep your child’s birth family updated. Lifebooks are automatically generated for adoptive families to upload pictures, videos, letters, and documents for birth parents to view. Email and text message reminders are created to keep you on task and on time- so no more missing important update deadlines and receiving calls from your agency/attorney. Furthermore, ChildConnect provides a secure communication messaging system that protects the identities of the parties.
Birth Parent Survey Site
The Birth Parent Survey Site was designed to elicit real, unbiased experiences from women and men that have gone through the difficult and emotional process of placing a child for adoption. Birth parents are encouraged to rate their experience with their particular agency or attorney and to give critical and helpful feedback, whether positive or negative so others may benefit from this information when selecting an adoption service provider. This site is also helpful for Adoptive Parents to learn about the ‘other side of adoption’ and how birth parents are treated and served by adoption providers. Making an adoption plan and placing a child is not easy, and the challenge of this should not be compounded by an unhelpful or unethical agency or attorney.
- The site provides a place to research agencies and attorneys and the services they offer
- Learn what agencies/firms are available in your area if proximity is important to you
- Review the experiences of birth parents with a particular adoption agency/firm