Adoption Overview

The Sacramento Adoption Center’s openness and honesty are central to the adoption process. We make sure everyone’s interests are considered and that adoption plans are built on a foundation of mutuality and trust.

• Birth parents and adopting parents are fully involved in the process.
• Birth parents choose their child’s adopting family.
• Both families decide together how much future contact they want to have.
• Adopting families are present when their baby is born.

The Sacramento Adoption Center is committed to helping adopting parents implement adoption plans unique to them that are within budgets which they establish at the outset.

At the Sacramento Adoption Center, your adoption decisions will be fully informed. You'll learn a birth mother's social and medical history; the reason she is choosing adoption as her parenting plan; the identity of her child's birth father and his attitude toward the adoption; and the projected costs of an adoption. If you choose to adopt a newborn, you can expect that your child will be released directly to you from the hospital.

The information following is intended to give you an overview of the adoption process at the Sacramento Adoption Center.

PHASE 1 - Adoption Outreach

The Center will conference with you to identify the parameters of your adoption plan; help you draft or revise your family profile, present your profile to birth parents contacting the Center; facilitate meetings for you with birth parents; and provide opportunity to talk with an attorney about the legal aspects of any adoption plan you may be considering.

PHASE 2 - Case Management

After you have committed to move forward with a birth mom in adoption planning, the Center will schedule on-going meetings for you with your baby's birth parent(s) to structure an adoption plan that meets everyone's needs; help your baby's birth mom secure MediCal coverage, if needed; coordinate her prenatal care and adoption counseling; arrange a hospital tour approximately one month pre-birth; help facilitate labor/delivery and your baby's discharge from the hospital.

Legal Aspects

At least 60 days before your baby is born, plan to choose an attorney with adoption expertise to represent you in legal proceedings finalizing your adoption plan. Your attorney will provide you with an Attorney-Client Agreement applicable to the circumstances of your particular adoption plan.

As the attorney at the Sacramento Adoption Center,Tom will provide you with an assessment of the legal aspects of the adoption plan you are considering. The fact that Tom provides you with such an assessment does not in any way obligate you to choose him as the attorney who helps you finalize your adoption plan -- although, under most circumstances, he will be available to do so, if that is your request.

We have the knowledge and expertise to assure that all ducks are in a row. No details are overlooked!