Your gift will help unite children with forever families.

Make your gift today in honor of a mom or a mother figure in your life. Your donation is a celebration of birth mothers and adoptive mothers and will help to create a forever family.

Dear Friend,

It starts with one. It starts with you. Your gift will help connect a child with their forever family.

Right now there is an expectant mother who is anxious about the future and in need of your help. And, there is an excited couple, awaiting special news that a child will be placed in their family. You can be the one to make sure adoption is an easily accessible option.

With your gift, adoptive parents, birth parents and children will find love, stability and support through Golden Cradle Adoption Services. Your gift will ensure birth parents receive counseling on available options for themselves and their baby, including the loving option of adoption. Your gift will also support housing assistance, medical care, transportation, and legal support for expecting mothers who feel that the best plan for their child is be placed with a loving forever family.

With your support and investment, children like Lyla are placed with a forever family.

Lyla’s mother was dealing with many life challenges, including addiction, and she made the decision to place Lyla up for adoption upon giving birth. Meanwhile, Jordan and Denise were looking to expand their current family of three, but after learning that conceiving another child would be a challenge, they turned to adoption, seeking assistance from Golden Cradle.

After extensive background checks, trainings, home visits, and letters of reference, Jordan and Denise’s home study was approved and they were placed on the waiting list. For some time, nothing

happened.

Then, the call of a prospective mother came and within a few hours, the prospective mother wanted to move forward with the match. Jordan and Denise kept ongoing communication with the birth mother; receiving updates on the baby and providing support to her as much as possible.

“The relationship with the birth mother is so important,” shared Denise. “It’s certainly complicated but also very significant. She is giving us the most important gift and she’s doing it because she loves her child.”

Upon Lyla being born, the couple had to wait 72-hours for the birth mother to yield her rights.

With your gift, Golden Cradle played an important role during this timeframe. Together, with lawyers for both parties, they helped to complete various checks and balances to ensure the baby was going into a happy, healthy, and stable home. Support was also provided to help Lyla’s mom follow a path toward recovery.

The couple knew ahead of time that Lyla might experience withdrawal due to her birth mother’s drug use, but they also knew that they would not leave her side despite the hardships. A few days after being born, Lyla had to be transported to a NICU at another hospital.

With the help of a medical team and the love and support from Jordan and Denise, Lyla recuperated and doctors gave the couple permission to go home and start their new life together as a family of four.

Because of you, Lyla is now living in a nurturing and loving home alongside her forever family. And, she loves older brother and her dog as much as they love her.

“When we started this process, everyone kept using the word ‘journey’ and now I understand why,” shared Denise. “Adoption is full of peaks and valleys. Its not for the faint of heart. You have to be tough, but when it’s over, it’s worth it.”

With your support, other children like Lyla can be placed with their forever families. Your gift will make it possible for children in need of a family to find safety and stability, and receive the love that every child deserves.

It starts with one. It starts with you. With your gift to Golden Cradle, you can be the one to support the next forever family.

Sincerely,

Richard Stagliano

President/CEO

Yes, I want to make a gift to support adoption.

Because of your support, Golden Cradle Adoption Services has a 40-year history of success in uniting children with their forever family. Now, as part of Center For Family Services, Golden Cradle has strengthened services, and caring staff continue to be available to expectant and adoptive parents. 100% of your gift will be used to support adoption.