Adoption Reunion Facilitation
Reunification Can
be Tricky
Whether an adoptee is searching for his or her birth family or the birth family is searching for the adoptee, the process of reuniting can be filled with anxiety, excitement, uncertainty, and challenges. This process is often facilitated or supported by adoptive parents and adoption service providers.
OurHeartsConnect can help in two ways:
Post Adoption Communication plans and a platform like OurHeartsConnect will help maintain a relationship between birth and adoptive families with boundaries that allow them to have a long term healthy relationship.
If there has been no contact between the adoptive parents and biological relatives the adoptee is faced with additional challenges:
1. Finding the biological family include methods such as:
Contacting the adoption agency or attorney that facilitated the adoption.
DNA Search
Facebook and other social media.
2. Connecting with them in a receptive and non-threatening way.
3. Establishing a way to connect and communicate that is comfortable for all parties. OurHeartsConnect can help with this!
Post Adoption Communication plans and a platform like OurHeartsConnect will help maintain a relationship between birth and adoptive families with boundaries that allow them to have a long term healthy relationship.
If there has been no contact between the adoptive parents and biological relatives the adoptee is faced with additional challenges:
1. Finding the biological family include methods such as:
Contacting the adoption agency or attorney that facilitated the adoption.
DNA Search
Facebook and other social media.
2. Connecting with them in a receptive and non-threatening way.
3. Establishing a way to connect and communicate that is comfortable for all parties. OurHeartsConnect can help with this!
Frequently Asked
Questions
The adoption reunion plan creates a short-term, 3-month account for the adoptee and birth family to communicate.
You can share photos, videos, important files such as medical history.
These conversations happen within our safe, easily accessible, private space.
Fantastic! After your 3-month period, we will invite you to join OurHeartsConnect as a lifetime member with a $50 discount. Essentially, this makes your reunion plan free.
No problem! You'll have two options for changing access to your account.
We can leave the photos and files you've shared in place and simply remove the ability for either of you to post, add new content, or communicate directly within the platform.
There is always the option of reinitiating your account for either or both parties.
