Post Adoption Services
Adoptive Families
After your adoption is finalized, TBH is dedicated to ensuring that the following transitions are smooth for you and your new family. To help with this, we offer the following inexhaustive list of post-adoption services to parents who finalized their adoptions through TBH:
- Information and referral for needed services including consulting, counseling, and medical
- Adoption relevant training for the whole family
- Assessments for different stages of life
- Respite care
- Assistance with search and reunion
- Ability to participate in our adoptive parent alumni association, Life Happens
- 24 hour crisis intervention
Life Happens Alumni Association
We are very excited to have our Adoptive Parent Alumni Association available to our parents. Once you have finalized your adoption, if you wish to become a member of this group, simply visit the website http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tbhpostadoptionsupportgroup/ to become a member or email Susan Shinn (TBH adoptive parent) at tbhsupportgroup@embarqmail.com. Also consider becoming a member of our private Facebook group, TBH Post Adoption Support Group.http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=310999254185
Adoption Reunion
Texas Baptist Home hosts an Annual Adoption Alumni Reunion every summer. It is our desire to keep in touch with you through out the years and this party is a great way for us as staff to see your family grow as well as for your family to build relationships with other families who’ve adopted. Please make plans to attend every year following the finalization of your adoption.
Not a TBH Family?
Here at the Texas Baptist Home we are only equipped to provide services for families who have chosen our agency for their adoption. However, if you are in need of Post-Adoption services, please contact mbaldwin@tbhc.org who will point you in the right direction for a Post-Adoption service provider in your area of the state of Texas.
Birth Mother Support Group:
What?
The Home exists to protect the sanctity of human life and to promote the preservation of the family. As a part of the fulfillment of this mission, we are also endeavoring to serve birthmothers who have placed their children for adoption. The group is facilitated by Lana Allen, M.A., LPC-Supervisor; Jackie Minchew, M.A., LPC-Intern, LMFT Associate; and Jessica Page, M.A., LPC-Intern. The group offers an environment that is safe and confidential for understanding, support, and healing for birthmothers. If you or someone you know is a birth mom and would like to be strengthened by the bond of common ground and experiences, please, join us as we come together monthly to share, grow, heal, and laugh.
The facilitators encourage ideas and feedback about the group.
When?
Every 3rd Thursday of the month
7-8 pm
Where?
The Oaks Fellowship Church
777 South I-35E
Red Oak, TX 75154
For questions, contact Megan Baldwin at 972-937-1321 or mbaldwin@tbhc.org