Child Adoption

Three Questions to Ask an Adoption Agency ADOPTING A CHILD Adoption is a gift of life, love and hope, and ensures a future of love and opportunity for a child whose mother is not able at that point in time, to take on the responsibility of being a parent.

Providence Place have helped create close to 6,000 families through adoption. We were the pioneers of open adoption in Texas so an adopted child can understand his or her background and birth mothers can keep contact with their babies.

PROVIDENCE PLACE 6487 Whitby Road San Antonio, Texas, united States Pin-code: 78240 Phone Number: (210) 6962410

WHERE DO DONATION FUNDS GO AT PROVIDENCE PLACE?

Many prospective donors ask this question before making a donation to a non-profit organization, unsure of how their hard-earned money is actually going to be used. They want to help the Providence Place mission of providing adoption services and life-skills training to young adults with disabilities, but they also want to make sure their money is going into the right hands and is being used for the proper purposes.

Occasionally, news reports will discuss how a charity somewhere sadly misappropriated funds for inappropriate reasons and not for the benefit of their cause. Let us put your mind at ease and tell you how Providence Place uses donations.

Where does the money go?

At Providence Place, donations go towards our various programs to help with day-to-day affairs.

Providence Place is not a business and therefore does not earn money from sales or deals, so it relies solely on the donations of its selfless and loving supporters to operate. The majority of our donations go directly into our programs Action Adoption, the Center for Higher Independence and Ectropia.

Funds help pregnant young women get the prenatal care they need and provide housing for young adults with disabilities while they learn how to become more independent. These funds are the only way by which the programs can operate and help us place more children with more loving families.

What is left over from these donations goes towards administration costs, such as paying our wonderful employees, and fundraisers to help raise more money and awareness for our organization.

We work to keep overhead costs low so we can do more for the San Antonio community.

How much?

So how much does Providence Place need to operate? To see figures of how our money has been used over the years, including our official report for 2013, please peruse our annual reports. Here you will find our sources of revenue, assets, expenses, and much more.

Like any non-profit, we can always use additional funds for operations, no matter how small. If donating isn’t an option for you at this time, you can always spread the word, volunteer your time, or perhaps offer a prayer for support. Providence Place simply would not be around if it were not for the love and support you have given us over the years. When it comes to donations, each dollar and each person matters, and Providence Place pledges to use your donated money to educate, care, and find loving homes for our children.

Adopting a child is an important decision that requires careful consideration. Are you contemplating adoption, or are you already planning to adopt a child? Do you have any idea about how or where to start? Action Adoption at Providence Place of San Antonio, Texas will guide you through the adoption process while making sure all your questions are answered. Contact them today to learn more about adoption and ways to get involved with our organization.

THREE QUESTIONS TO ASK AN ADOPTION AGENCY If you are considering adopting a child, you are already keenly aware of all the uncertainties and unknowns. You have probably asked all these questions and more:

Will the birthmother change her mind? How do I know the status of the child? How long will the adoption process take? What are the required legal processes and how can I check that I have completed them all? What will the total costs be?

If you have decided to use an adoption agency to facilitate the new addition to your family, they should be happy to help answer all your questions, and there are some questions that they should be made to answer no matter what. Here are three broad questions that you should ask of an adoption agency. They will help you to verify whether they are a qualified provider of adoption services.

Adoption laws are in fact quite complicated. They can change depending on which state you live in, and based on the state that your prospective child lives in. There are forms and contracts to complete, submit, and track; you may also need to work with various authorities in the courts. An adoption agency that is on top of the necessary adoption services will be able to provide answers and education about your role in all of these processes.

It will also be important to have an idea of what legal services are not covered by the adoption agency. If you visit your state’s official website, you can learn more about the laws in your area. With

this information, ask your adoption agency if they have familiarity navigating the laws, and what their success and failures have been in meeting them.

Find more information visit on http://www.provplace.org/three-questions-ask-adoption-agency/