Florida Adoption Match Support: Help When You Already Have a Connection
When a hopeful adoptive family and a birth mother in Florida connect, it can feel like the perfect beginning. But for that adoption to move forward legally, a licensed Florida adoption agency must be involved. That’s where Lifetime Adoption’s Florida Adoption Match Support program comes in.
Florida Adoption Match Support provides the required agency services while ensuring that birth mothers receive the compassionate care they deserve.
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What Is Florida Adoption Match Support?
Florida Adoption Match Support is a specialized program created for families and professionals who have already made a match. It’s designed to bridge the gap between a private connection and a legal adoption.
This program is ideal for:
- Florida Adoptive Families who have already connected with a birth mother and need a licensed agency to provide a Florida home study, handle consents, coordination, and support.
- Out of State Adoptive Families who have already connected with a birth mother in Florida and need a licensed agency to handle consents, coordination, and support.
- Attorneys who represent clients in Florida adoption cases and need an agency partner to provide the required services.
- Expectant Mothers who have already chosen a family and want confidential guidance, counseling, and ongoing support.
Why Families Choose Lifetime
Families and attorneys choose Lifetime Adoption for Florida Adoption Match Support because of our reputation for compassion, compliance, and experience. With more than 35 years of service, Lifetime is known nationwide for ethical adoptions and unmatched birth mother care.
We understand that adoption is more than paperwork. It’s about people, emotions, and nuanced situations that require personalized care every step of the way.
Caring for Birth Mothers
A woman choosing adoption deserves more than just signatures on a page. She deserves support, respect, and compassion. Through Florida Adoption Match Support, Lifetime provides:
- Dedicated Coordinator: Each birth mother is paired with a caring coordinator who walks with her every step of the way.
- 24/7 Support: She can reach us any time of day or night for help, reassurance, or emergencies.
- Licensed Counseling: Confidential counseling with a professional counselor is available if she wants someone to talk to.
- Peer Support: If desired, she can connect with other birth mothers who have chosen adoption.
- Practical Help: Maternity clothes, a labor bag for the hospital, and referrals for medical care, housing, or community resources.
- Hospital Planning: We coordinate with hospital staff to honor her wishes during delivery and her hospital stay.
- Post-Placement Care:Support continues after placement, helping her as she moves forward.
- Open Adoption Coordination: If needed, our team is available to help navigate the ongoing contact that comes with open adoption.
This wraparound care ensures that she feels valued and never alone as she walks through the adoption process.
What Adoptive Families Receive
Families who use Florida Adoption Match Support benefit from Lifetime’s licensed services, including:
- Consents and Legal Documentation: We handle all required consents and coordinate with attorneys to ensure compliance.
- Dedicated Adoption Coordinator: One point of contact for communication and case management.
- Hospital Coordination: We manage hospital planning and communicate with staff to smooth the process.
- Mediation and Support: If challenges arise, we serve as a neutral third party to protect the relationship.
- Peace of Mind: Families know their adoption is legal, supported, and handled with care.
- Florida Home Study and Post-Placement Reports (if needed): As a fully licensed adoption agency, we are certified to perform Florida home study services as well as the court-required post-placement reports.
Support for Attorneys
Attorneys often rely on Lifetime Adoption to provide the agency services required in Florida. Our team handles consents, counseling, and reports, allowing attorneys to focus on legal proceedings while their clients receive professional agency care.
When Florida Adoption Match Support Helps
- Private Match: An adoptive family meets an expectant mother in Florida and needs licensed support.
- Attorney Referral: A Florida adoption attorney needs an agency partner to provide required services.
- Direct Choice: A birth mother has already chosen a family but wants guidance, counseling, and a caring team.
No matter how the match begins, Florida Adoption Match Support ensures the adoption moves forward legally and compassionately.
FAQs About Florida Adoption Match Support
What is Florida Adoption Match Support?
It’s a program offered by Lifetime Adoption for families, attorneys, and birth mothers who already have a match and need licensed agency services.
Why do we need an agency if we already know the birth mother?
Florida law requires a licensed agency or attorney for adoption consents and related services. Florida Adoption Match Support fulfills those requirements.
How does Lifetime support birth mothers?
We provide counseling, peer support, practical help, hospital coordination, and post-placement care. We want to ensure she is supported throughout her adoption plan.
What does it cost?
Florida Adoption Match Support is offered at a flat fee, with additional costs for legal services, home studies, or birth mother expenses as outlined in the adoption agreement. Please call 727-493-0933 to discuss the fees required for your specific situation.
Why Choose Lifetime Adoption
Lifetime Adoption has been helping families and women since 1986. As a licensed Florida adoption agency, we provide:
- More than 35 years of adoption expertise.
- Licensed services required under Florida law.
- Compassionate support for birth mothers.
- Guidance for adoptive families and attorneys.
When you’ve already made a connection, our Florida Adoption Match Support program provides everything needed to complete the adoption legally and with care.
Take the Next Step
If you’ve already connected with a birth mother in Florida, or if you’re an attorney looking for an agency partner on the ground in Florida, Lifetime Adoption is here to help. Call us at 727-493-0933 to learn more.
Confidential Adoption Planning Questionnaire
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Lifetime Adoption Agency’s Experience and Mission
Whether you are looking to place a baby or child for adoption or to grow your family through adoption, we can help you.
We’re here for everything you need to make an open adoption thrive. Need help completing your home study as prospective adoptive parents? Seeking the placement of a child who’s already been born? We are here to help you through it all.
Lifetime Adoption has over 39 years of experience in making lasting connections. Women looking to place their children for adoption make that choice for many different reasons. After so many years, we have helped many people in many different situations.
Our goal has stayed the same over all those years. We create open lines of communication between the birth parents and loving adoptive families. Open adoption is full of so much love. We honor both the love of a birth parent choosing adoption for their child and the love of the hopeful adoptive family who agrees to be vetted and screened and welcomes a child with love and open arms.
We should celebrate all this love because ultimately, everyone just wants what is best for the child. Select an agency that promotes the child’s welfare above all else—select Lifetime Adoption Agency.
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