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Hello. My husband and I live in Baltimore County. After months in fertility treatments we have decided to adopt. I am from Puerto Rico and is the first time that i live out of my country. We are interested in adopt but i don't know which are the first steps. SOmebody can help me with info. Baltimore County Health and Human Services prepare home studies? If someone could help us we will appreciate it.
God Bless You,
Mildred & John
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We are looking first for both domestic and international info. Because we don't have enough info we haven't decided yet. Fees are super high so we have to decide.
Thanks for writing!
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We adopted a child through the state foster care system. We used an agency called "Adoptions Together". They are located in Baltimore. They do all types of adoptions - domestic infant, international, foster care/adopt. I really recommend them. Give them a call and they can talk to you about all the different programs. Let me know if you need further info.
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We also used Adoptions Together but with their Silver Spring. The folks there were super - both with a private infant adoption and with adoption of a child from the state foster care system ... so if you haven't called them, please do - their fees may seem high to start but be sure and discuss with them how they are incoporated into the post-placement costs which are reimbursed at finalization by the placing agencies/states ... it is worth it!
Hope this helps and as you start the process of homestudy - fire away with questions - there are many ahead for you for sure!
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Thank you for your info:) We are going to attend to their meeting in February to know them in person and get more info.
Do you already adopted? What about the homestudy, did they do it?
Thanks and blessings,
Mildred
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Glad to hear you will be attending their information meeting ... do go for the training too - even if what you hear at the info meeting sounds like alot of work and time - it is worth it. They did three home-studies for us (three actual placements ... one of which disrupted and they were absolutely fabulous through that process too - making it positive enough for us to go back for another placement after it) and were wonderful - hardest part is waiting for all the red tape to process and all the forms to be completed.
Note - they will try and place Maryland children first but you can look out of state - sometimes other states have younger children available - Oregon for one - which opens another round of red tape with Inter-State Compact but ATI handled all that without any complications ... and if you decide to go foreign they are just as dedicated to the extra paperwork involved to effect that type of placement too.
As you see - I can't say enough good about them and if we were to do it again - they would be our representatives.
Keep us posted and again - send along any thoughts or questions (and remember there are many phases to this process - even fear at taking such a change in your own life) anytime!
Best wishes,
Lynne:D
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