Adoption Contract Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please complete this form once you have decided to place your child for adoptionName *FirstLastEmail *In selecting an adoptive family for your child,you may request that your child be placed with an adoptive family of your same religious and/or ethnic background, i.e. racial. A Giving Tree Adoptions will do everything in our power, within reasonable request, honor your wishes. All adoptive families must complete a special training program that develops their understanding of how to best meet children’s needs. This includes information about child development, explaining adoption to children, and baby care. A Giving Tree Adoptions checks on the applicants and members of their household to determine if they have criminal records that would make them unsuitable to raise children. A Giving Tree Adoptions receives references regarding all applicants to determine if their friends, employers and relatives consider them to be suitable to be adoptive parents. A social worker from A Giving Tree Adoptions meets with the applicants and goes to their home to determine if they can provide a safe, loving and good family life for a child. Applicants must obtain a statement from a physician confirming they have no physical and/or mental health problems that would interfere with raising a child. In the unlikely event that the family you select for your child is unable, for unforeseen reasons, to receive placement of the child, A Giving Tree Adoptions will use its sole discretion in selecting a family. If a specific family has been selected for your child, you may request that you be provided with certain information. This will be non-identifying and why it is believed this family will meet your child’s needs. As a birth parent, we know you want the best for your child. To do this, you may wish to view profiles of potential adoptive families. If you desire you may interview potential adoptive families by phone, in person or via skype. You may choose to receive letters, visits or calls for the ongoing 18 years at your discretion. Letters can be placed in your file and retrieve when you please. This would be an open adoption. If you are not completely comfortable choosing a family, you may opt to have staff do that for you. You have the choice to keep your adoption file closed having no further contact with the child. This is a closed adoption. We believe that each person involved in the adoption process is equally important and continually strives to ensure all parties needs are advocated for. In addition to the support from our birth parent advocate, we will provide counseling resources and financial aid for you as needed. Our birth parent advocate is available to you for support and friendship. They are able to drive you to appointments as needed, or to grocery or general shopping. We want to thank you for considering adoption. This is a deeply selfless loving act. Before we proceed, we ask you to fill out the following page and return it to us as soon as you feel ready. I, *Intended to place my child, expected or born on...date *with A Giving Tree Adoptions Inc. I understand A Giving Tree Adoptions agreed to provide services for me related to my adoption plan. I have filled out the application information to the best of my ability. *Agree I understand the services given to me are on a case-by-case basis but I will have access to all support that can be provided. *Agree I agree to be open and honest with A Giving Tree Adoptions and to answer all questions truthfully. I agree to disclose anything pertinent to my adoption plan and will update information as they occur. *Agree A Giving Tree Adoptions has not promised me money or anything of value in exchange for the adoption placement of the child. *Agree I agree that A Giving Tree Adoptions is bound by legal and state obligations and can discontinue services at their discretion. *Agree I agree that all information I have provided will remain confidential and will reasonably care to ensure confidentiality, consistent with the level of openness I agree too, but acknowledge there are circumstances outside of the control of A Giving Tree Adoptions that may impact the ability to maintain the level of confidentiality I choose. *Agree I release A Giving Tree Adoptions from all claims, losses, liability, actions, causes of action, damages, or injuries, no matter how characteristized, related to, or arising from my actions or omissions or those of any prospective adoptive parents; related to or arising from services provided by A Giving Tree Adoptions, including but not limited to any breach in apparent breach of confidentiality; related to or arising from A Giving Tree Adoptions discontinuing services; or related to or arising from any decision made by A Giving Tree Adoptions with respect to me or the child I’m placing. *Agree I understand that A Giving Tree Adoptions will do their best to place the child into a home of my religious or cultural preference. If my religious or cultural preference cannot be met, I understand A Giving Tree Adoptions will place the child with a family with appropriate religious or cultural backgrounds. *Agree I understand A Giving Tree will do everything in their power to accommodate my adoption plan. *Agree I understand that financial aid may include but not limited to: housing, food, utilities, medicines, or clothing if needed. All expenses are determined on a case-by-case basis and may be limited further by the state where the adoptive family resides. *Agree Signature *Clear SignatureDate / Time *DateTimeNameSubmit