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Newborns to be placed for adoption often come to the agency's attention through the pregnancy counselor, a voluntary counselling and referral service offered by the agency to women and men requiring assistance in adapting to a pregnancy. The goal of the pregnancy counsellor is to assist expectant parents in making informed decisions and plans.

Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region encourages birth parents who make a plan of adoption for their child to be involved in the decision making process. Through the expression of hopes and preferences for their child, the values, lifestyle, education, cultural heritage, and other characteristics that are important to the birth parents are considered carefully when choosing the child's adoptive parents.

Practices in adoption are moving toward openness between adopting families and birth families. This means that adoptive parents are open to some contact with birth family members and former foster parents after the adoption. This could range from the exchange of cards, letters and photographs (either directly or through the agency) to visits with birth family members. While openness has become increasingly accepted over the last several years, this is a decision that has to be made individually in each adoption. The degree of openness a child needs, the birth parent wants, or what an adoptive family can accept should be carefully examined early in the adoption process.

Our Mailing address is:
Foster Adopt Recruitment Team
Family and Children's Services of the Region of Waterloo
300 Ardelt Avenue
Kitchener, Ontario N2G 2S6
Call (519) 576-0540, ask for a Foster/Adopt Recruitment Worker
E-mail: foster.adoption@facswaterloo.org