AdoptionSTAR's Podcast

Adoption STAR's Agency Assisted Private Track Program is a one-of-a-kind agency model, where Adoption STAR gives you the tools you need to market your adoption journey and find an expecting mother who is making an adoption plan. If you are successful in finding an expecting mother, this woman will immedietely become an Adoption STAR client and become eligible for 24/7 free counseling and support. You will also receive 50 percent off of your Adoption STAR Placement Fee.

This program is successful because it allows waiting parents to more actively participate in their adoption journey. Clients using the Private Track Program will also be dual enrolled in Adoption STAR's traditional adoption program, and will be eligible to be matched with expecting parents Adoption STAR is currently working with.

Lisa Casper from Parenthood For Me, joins us to speak about issues regarding infertility, and how Parenthood For Me provides grants to families looking to grow their family through either adoption or medical treatment.

Adoption STAR speaks with Helen Weinstein, who is the Coordinator of The Fetal Alcohol and Drug Effects Program of the Erie County Council for the Prevention of Alcohol and Substance Abuse.

Topics include:

- Parenting a child with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS)

- Adopting a child who may have FAS

- Preventing FAS

- Signs that your child may have FAS

- What to do if you suspect your child may have FAS

- Much, much more.

Adoption STAR Infant Adoption Awareness Training Project Lead Michael Hill speaks about educating medical professionals about adoption, and the importance of having an adoption as an option.

November is National Adoption Month. In this month's two-part podcast Adoption STAR E-Marketing Coordinator, Alex Rubin, speaks about different ways to celebrate adoption during the month of November and speaks with Rachel and Jim, who adopted their daughters Amelia and Olivia through Adoption STAR. Amelia and Olivia have the same birth parents and were born about one year apart.

November is National Adoption Month. In this month's two-part podcast Adoption STAR E-Marketing Coordinator, Alex Rubin, speaks about different ways to celebrate adoption during the month of November and speaks with Rachel and Jim, who adopted their daughters Amelia and Olivia through Adoption STAR. Amelia and Olivia have the same birth parents and were born about one year apart.

In the September edition of the Adoption STAR Podcast, Sue Kolock speaks about the adoption process, the benefits of open adoption, what to think about when deciding whether to accept a birth parent match and much much more.

Birth Parent Specialist Sue Shaw speaks about the myths of adoption, the importance of an open or semi-open adoption, the support birth parents can receive from an adoption agency and much much more.

Adoption STAR CEO and Founder, Michele Fried, and Adoption STAR E-Marketing Coordinator, Alex Rubin, discuss how the growth of social media has effected relationships in adoption. Michele also has tips for a healthy and ongoing relationship as a birth parent, adoptive parent or adoptee.