G.I.F.T. Family Services

For us at Growing Intentional Families Together, our primary objective is to support and empower you throughout the adoption experience. Whether you are considering adoption, in the adoption process, or raising an adoptive family, we are here to help you make your adoption journey as successful and fulfilling as it can be. If you are an adoptee or birth parent, we are here to assist you in your journey. All of our coaches are certified, professionals who graduated from an International Coaching Federation accredited coaching program and are committed to coaching through a trauma-informed lens.

Our triad perspective is committed to ensuring that adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents are empowered. Our certified coached have lived experience, either as an adoptee, a birth parent, or an adoptive parent. Each coach brings a wide variety of professional and life experience to support you wherever you are on your journey.

For those considering adopting a child, at Growing Intentional Families Together, we believe that the decision to adopt a child is yours and yours alone. We know that you have what it takes to discern whether adoption is right for you. We are here to give you tools, insights, and behind-the-scenes information that will help you feel confident in your decision.

If you currently are parenting a child through adoption, Growing Intentional Families Together stands ready to help you navigate the joys and challenges of parenting. Through it all, we are here with skilled personal coaching and support so your adoption journey is as successful and fulfilling as it can be.

For adoptees, we are positioned to support you as you encounter life's challenges unique to adoptees, such as birth family reunion, navigating adoptive family relationships, and discovering identity or heritage.

For birth families, we stand ready to walk with you as you navigate an open adoption plan, reunification, and the unique challenges of birth families.

For individuals and families, we offer individual coaching as well as on-demand material that supports the adoption triad. From preparing to adopt, to adoptive parenting, to grief awareness, and more, our coaches and webinars can have a positive impact on you and your family.

For agencies and adoption organizations, we offer customized webinars as well as prepared educational videos that will enhance your services. We can help you optimize your staff education through professional development services.

We stand by our Adoption Philosophy:
+Adoption is an authentic and important way to become a family.
+Adoption is a difficult choice for a birth parent that deserves respect and empathy.
+An adoptive family is as real as being a biological family. However, there are differences.
+At its core, adoption is a relationship affirmed by law and built through agreement, not biology. Its success depends on the love, intentionality, integrity, and commitment of those involved.
+Adoption is a relationship built on love, commitment, and connection rather than a transaction with an expectation of gratitude.
+Adoption influences a family throughout their lives.
+Adoption encompasses a wide range of emotions and experiences. A safe harbor to discuss adoption requires invitation and permission rather than demand and intrusion.
+People have the right to their feelings. It is healthy and normal to grieve adoption-related losses. Denial of feelings leads to loneliness, confusion, and further pain.
+Adoptive and birth families have an added layer of societal expectations that can place additional pressure on each family member.
+Unfortunately adoptees and their families -- birth and adoptive -- sometimes face demeaning communication and attitudes that label, minimize, stereotype, shame, or ridicule.
+Adoption brings coexisting gains and losses to all parties involved and influences how they respond within their families.

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