We Provide Pregnant Women Housing when Choosing Adoption in Colorado
Pregnancy is a challenging experience, both physically and mentally. There are also added difficulties of choosing adoption, navigating those emotional complexities, and selecting an adoptive family to place your child with. You shouldn’t have to worry about having a safe place to live on top of that. The added stress of not having a safe environment to live in can be detrimental to the health of you and the baby.
We have good news for you! You’ve come to the right place! At Adoption Choices of Colorado, we provide pregnant women housing when choosing adoption.
What Housing Assistance Covers for Birth Mothers
Housing assistance entails finding court-approved living expenses for birth mothers whose home life may be compromised in some way. We can also help with the essential expenses such as rent, utilities, food, and other important items. It can be immensely difficult to return to everyday life after placing your baby for adoption. We want to do whatever we can to help.
In order to be a birth mother, you have to be responsible for yourself and the child that you are carrying. It’s hard to rest in a place where you don’t feel safe. If you’re compromised financially,you may be wrestling with where to cut corners in order to make ends meet and not be buried by expenses. It’s very important that you don’t do this. We want to support you and your baby. We want you both to be well and healthy. To have a healthy pregnancy, you need to have heat, water, and a warm bed to sleep in at night. These are essential rights that belong to every human, and are absolutely vital to the health of a pregnant future birth mother.
Emergency Housing for Birth Mothers
If a situation calls for it, Adoption Choices of Colorado can temporarily place birth mothers in hotels. This is strictly for emergency situations, where the immediate safety of birth mothers is being called into question. The hotel offers a temporary refuge where birth mothers need to be separated from the trauma of their home life, or lack thereof.
Following this emergency placement, they can then be relocated to a more long-term housing facility. If there is an immediate threat or emergency situation, then your well-being is our top priority. Do not hesitate to inform us of any situation where you feel unsafe! We will always be there to support you.
How Long Housing Assistance Lasts for Birth Mothers
Housing assistance for birth mothers can last for the duration of your pregnancy, and up to 4-6 weeks following delivery. We want you to feel safe and cared for throughout your pregnancy and adoption journey, and we want to provide shelter to you should your situation require it. Also, it can be especially challenging to return to life as normal following the placement of a child for adoption. We want to support you there too, so you won’t have to worry about rent or other expenses. This also gives you the opportunity to look towards your future. If your financial responsibilities have been lifted, even just for a brief period of time, you can explore ways to further your education and your career. We can help you figure out a new direction in life, and start you on a better and more productive path.
Part of the way that we help birth mothers heal and move forward with their lives is through our counseling process. We offer free counseling services to birth mothers and their immediate families. We are partnered with another organization known as Lifetime Healing. Their central mission is to provide education on the adoption process, and support for birth mothers in post placement. There is no timetable on grief, and we don’t underestimate what you’re going through. If you’re struggling with difficult feelings and don’t know where life is going to take you next, you are not alone. We offer support groups, as well as personal sessions that will help you unpack all of those tough feelings.
You’re Part of a Unique Situation as a Birth Mother
We provide pregnant women housing when choosing adoption in Colorado because we want to help. Navigating an unplanned pregnancy is scary. Having to deal with a compromised living situation on top of that is nearly unthinkable. You deserve a safe place to rest your head at night. You deserve a home, especially while you are carrying your baby. You may feel isolated, scared, and unsure about what decisions to make or who to turn to. However, when you make the choice to become a birth mother, you become a part of a unique extended family known as the adoption triad. There are other women who know and understand your feelings, and you can come together to promote healing and growth.
If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy and want to learn more about your adoption options, contact Adoption Choices of Colorado by email, phone, or text: Email Us, Text us: 720-371-1099, Call us: 303-670-4673 (HOPE). If you are hoping to adopt, please contact us here.
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Stephanie joined the Adoption Choices family in 2014 as the Child Placement Supervisor. Her love for adoption began in first grade when she made friends with twins adopted from Vietnam. Her heart grew strong over the years for adopted children and ultimately led her to graduate school where she continued her focus to her dream of working in the adoption field. Stephanie earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Denver in 2001. Over the past 15 years, Stephanie has worked as a pregnancy counselor and as an adoptive parent counselor for foster care, international adoption and domestic adoption, writing hundreds of home studies for families, and helping build their forever families. Stephanie is married and has three boys ages 12, 9, and 5. Together with her family she enjoys riding bike, playing games, watching her three sons compete in their various sporting and musical activities and go on vacations.
Christy Ikeler, is our Executive Director and Birth Parent Director. Christy has been with Adoption Choices Team for 18 years, since opening the doors in 2002! Christy has a true passion for what she does and her true love is working with and helping each birth parent. Whether she is up all night on the phone talking with them, taking them to doctors appointments, out for their favorite treat, providing counseling or at the hospital during labor and delivery, Christy is very involved every step of the way. She has a contagious laugh and a spunky personality that our birth moms all can bond with and relate to. As an adoptive parent herself, adoption holds a very special place in her heart and she can relate on every level with both birth parents and adoptive parents. In her free time Christy loves spending time with her daughter, gardening, baking and taking vacations with her family. Christy is an excellent leader for our team at Adoption Choices and is truly one of a kind!! As Executive Director, Christy spends time with the staff, birth parents and adoptive families in order to ensure that the agency is running smoothly. She has placed a huge emphasis on community outreach and programs for birth parents. Christy loves the opportunity to lead the agency into a brighter future.
Ms. Mackenzie has built a successful counseling career over the past 20 years, supporting mothers and families, people of all ages and genders, students, community professionals and fellow clinicians. Liv values a diverse professional focus, including the entrepreneurial life of a sole proprietor, the evaluative process of certifying foster/adoptive homes, the insightful and mindful one-on-one one work with enthusiastic clients, and serving as an advocate for underserved populations. Liv is a Licensed Professional Counselor and holds a BA in Pre-Law and Economics from American University, an MA in Counseling from Adams University and a certificate in Human Resource Management from Villanova University. Away from work you will find Liv spending time in nature, biking to the farmer’s market and adventuring with her family.
Catherine A. Madsen, joined the Adoption Choices family as legal counsel in 2013. Catherine is responsible for providing legal guidance to the Agency, training and updating staff on developments in adoption law and legislation, and program development. Catherine
Virginia Frank is an adoption attorney accredited since 1991 with the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Ms. Frank is a leader in the field of private adoption and has completed over 4,000 adoptions in her career. Ms. Frank has a law degree from Oklahoma City University and a BA in both Political Science and Communications from the University of Oklahoma.
Cassidie has been with Adoption Choices since 2015, she has her bachelors in Interdisciplinary Affairs with concentrations in both Sociology and Business Management. Cassidie has additional training in Victim Advocacy, foster care and has been working in women’s services for over 10 years. Cassidie has always had a heart for adoption and it was her career dream to work in adoption. She started off doing volunteer work for advocacy programs, adoption organizations and worked in High Risk Maternal Fetal Medicine through the University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Colorado. Cassidie is also blessed to have personally experienced an adoption of her own in 2012, completing her family of five! Cassidie loves what she does as a case worker from initial phone calls, meetings, doctor appointments, interaction with the adoptive families to delivery and counseling. Cassidie has a passion for those in need and strives to help make a difference in the lives of the people she meets. She is a firm believer in being kind, compassionate and open minded in all situations. “Unless you’ve walked in their shoes, there’s no place for judgment. A kind word or compliment can go a long way!” The bittersweet moments in adoption reminds Cassidie each and every time, why she loves what she does!