Adoption/Fostering Family Continuity Program

Adoption was not always the plan. After careful discernment, I made the decision to adopt as a single mother by choice—a choice that comes with tremendous responsibility, deep intention, and, for me, no safety net. 

I’ve worked hard to become ready, emotionally and logistically. I’ve taken parenting courses, sought professional guidance, built relationships with other adoptive families, and joined peer groups to ensure that I—and my future child—have meaningful support. I also volunteer with my adoption agency’s prospective parent training sessions and am committed to ethical adoption practices that honor and support birth mothers as central participants in this process. I chose domestic infant adoption because I knew that, realistically, I could not navigate the additional complexities and financial demands of fostering or adopting a child with special needs as a single parent. That decision came from a place of honesty and care—not limitation, but realism. 

This process has required a level of preparation and self-awareness I didn’t anticipate. I know that financial hardship should never be the reason a prepared, responsible parent can’t adopt—but I also know the math doesn’t lie. I am doing everything in my power to give a child a loving, stable, permanent home. A grant to help with expenses to complete my homestudy provided needed support — and affirmed that doing this alone, thoughtfully and responsibly, is something worthy of help. I’m ready to be a mother.

I just need a little help getting to the moment I can hold my child in my arms.