Procedural Overview
for Adoptive Parents

1. Send your profile, adoption application form and application fee with the following:
   
   Dear Birth Mother letter: Write a letter telling potential birth mothers as much as you can about yourselves. Include your hobbies and interests, your occupations, your personalities, your experience and loss at not having children (or more children), your pets, your favorite vacations, your extended family, your dreams, and a description of your home.
   
   Pictures: Include at least ten to twenty pictures of yourselves, fun times, vacations, pets, your home, relatives, etc. Place your pictures on 8½ by 12 paper and write or type in captions explaining each photo. Then put them in a notebook with your birth mother letter. You will not get your profile back, so you may wish to send us copies, which can be made at Kinkos or another copying place. Be as creative as you wish when putting your profile together. Please send us two copies.
   
   Home Study: If you have a home study please send us a copy with an original signature. Your home study is good for one year. If you need to have one done, make arrangements as soon as possible, but go ahead and send everything else so we can start the application process. Your home study and/or updated must be completed by a private organization. We cannot accept a home study and/or update completed by a state or county worker.
   
   Completed Documents: Enclosed you will find a Memorandum of documents needed to complete your application. Our office must have all of these documents in order to complete your adoption with our agency.
   
   $550.00 nonrefundable application fee. This fee is good for one year.

2. Your pictures and letter are shown to birth mothers once they have signed a statement of intention to place their child for adoption with our agency. Usually three or four couples are presented to each birth mother.

3. Once a birth mother chooses you, you sign a contract and then send the total estimated amount of your adoption fees, expenses, and costs, which will be deposited into the agency escrow account. If your birth mother lives in the State of Oklahoma, you will come to our offices in Oklahoma for your interview with the Child Placement Supervisor, and to meet your birth mother.

4. Keep in touch with us and with your birth mother throughout the pregnancy.

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