Now, different agencies do things differently... At first, I assumed we'd have to put together a photo book or a powerpoint presentation that would be used as our profile and that would be shown to birthparents. However, with our particular agency, they choose to have a team that puts together all of the profiles for the families they work with. One of the reasons they do this is so that all of the families start on the same level, and families don't have to rely on their own technical skills (or lack thereof) for such an important part of the adoption process. Truthfully, I was relieved to hand the job over to them!
So, over the last few months we worked on all of the pieces (which we've written about in previous posts), submitted them to our agency, and we were so excited to see the finished product!
We have what they call a 'print profile' (what Andy is looking at), which is a 4-page brochure that will be shown to birthparents. There is also an 'online profile,' which includes everything the print profile includes but it also has a few more photos, another text section or two, and our complete list of favorites (only 5 or 6 favorites are listed on the print profile).
It feels so great to have this part done! It's one of the biggest tasks we've had to complete and it feels great to clear another hurdle.
NOW... our social worker should be working on finishing our home study document and hopefully within a few weeks that'll be done and we'll be active, and they'll start showing our profile to birthparents!! It's right around the corner!!!!!
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