Guest Anna Abraham shares about post adoption services and they can assist those who have used Gladney's adoption services. At Gladney, these services are for life.

Placing a child for adoption means that a woman has relinquished her rights to the child which means she no longer has authority over the child. We don't believe that she "gave up" her child. We believe that she made a choice to say "I am no longer this child's parent".

The most common question Anna hears from birth parents ... "when will we hear from the adoptive family again?"

Services Offered to the Birth Parents:

• Help birth parents with counseling
• Navigate reunions with birth parents and the child placed for adoption

Resources:

• Resilence Support Group by The Table DFW
• Birthmothers Amplified

Let us know your thoughts on the episode and if you have any questions for Haleigh! You can shoot us an email at shifted@gladney.org

Join us on this auditory journey with ShiftED’s hosts, Kerry & Amy, as we seek to educate and equip students and teachers with relevant information about adoption, child welfare, and culturally-relevant stories. We’ll also have some fun along the way.

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🔗 LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE

The Adoption Process

https://bit.ly/3DWrQoZ

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If you’re pregnant and unsure of what to do, Gladney can help. Reach out to us by phone, text, chat or email and talk to someone like Yvonne to understand your options. A dedicated Gladney staff member is standing by with answers. https://gladneyadoption.com/

ShiftED, presented by AdoptED, is produced and recorded by the Gladney Center for Adoption, a premier non-profit adoption agency located in Fort Worth, Texas. You can find out more about Gladney’s mission and services at www.gladney.org

AdoptED is a program developed by Gladney that seeks to educate and empower students and teachers with knowledge about adoption and the choices a woman might face in an unplanned pregnancy. You can find out more about AdoptED and our new online, virtual classroom at www.adoption-education.com

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We’re kicking off a new series for the next three episodes of ShiftED! If you’ve ever wondered what the adoption process actually looks like from start to finish from an expectant parent’s perspective, tune in to the next three episodes of ShiftED!

This episode marks Part I of “How to Make an Adoption Plan!” In this episode, we sit back down with Yvonne Muñoz who is an Options Counselor at the Gladney Center for Adoption. She walks us through the moment someone decides to reach out for help when they find themselves in an unplanned pregnancy and what comes next should they decide to make an adoption plan for their child. Yvonne’s job is to talk with these parents in this brave and vulnerable moment of their journey and help them explore their options.

Yvonne talks through common questions she gets when speaking to men and women who reach out to Gladney, the services Gladney can offer someone experiencing an unplanned pregnancy, and what getting started making an adoption plan looks like. While she doesn’t cover the entire process in this episode, she lays the groundwork for Parts 2 & 3 of ShiftED to pick up and finish off the explanation of the adoption process.

If you haven’t listened to Episode 6 of ShiftED yet, Yvonne tells her story of becoming a teen mom and experiencing many of the challenges the parents she speaks with day to day are living. In this episode, she talks about how helpful and informative her experiences as a teen mom are when she’s doing her job at Gladney.

Let us know your thoughts on the episode and if you have any questions for Yvonne! You can shoot us an email at shifted@gladney.org

Join us on this auditory journey with ShiftED’s hosts, Kerry & Amy, as we seek to educate and equip students and teachers with relevant information about adoption, child welfare, and culturally-relevant stories. We’ll also have some fun along the way.

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🔗 LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE

The Adoption Process

https://bit.ly/3DWrQoZ

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If you’re pregnant and unsure of what to do, Gladney can help. Reach out to us by phone, text, chat or email and talk to someone like Yvonne to understand your options. A dedicated Gladney staff member is standing by with answers. https://gladneyadoption.com/

ShiftED, presented by AdoptED, is produced and recorded by the Gladney Center for Adoption, a premier non-profit adoption agency located in Fort Worth, Texas. You can find out more about Gladney’s mission and services at www.gladney.org

AdoptED is a program developed by Gladney that seeks to educate and empower students and teachers with knowledge about adoption and the choices a woman might face in an unplanned pregnancy. You can find out more about AdoptED and our new online, virtual classroom at www.adoption-education.com

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🖥 Sign up to use AdoptED’s curriculum in your classroom for FREE!

http://bit.ly/AdoptEDVC

In this episode of ShiftED, we get to hear Yvonne Muñoz share her story about becoming a teen mom while she was in high school. Yvonne works at Gladney now, but her story of being a teen mom plays into how she actually came to work in the social work field and how she ended up working for Gladney’s team of Options Counselors!

Yvonne tells us how finding out she was pregnant changed her world as a high school student. She details her experience in the hospital during labor, becoming a parent while still attending and finishing high school, navigating her relationship with her boyfriend, working to help financially support her son, and even moving out of her mom’s house as a teenager!

She finishes up the episode with some wisdom and advice for anyone who might find themselves in a similar situation to hers.

Yvonne has an amazing story and is herself an incredible storyteller— we’re sure you’ll be captivated. Let us know your thoughts on the episode and if you have any questions for Yvonne! You can shoot us an email at shifted@gladney.org

Join us on this auditory journey with ShiftED’s hosts, Kerry & Amy, as we seek to educate and equip students and teachers with relevant information about adoption, child welfare, and culturally-relevant stories. We’ll also have some fun along the way.

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🔗 LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE

UTA’s Social Work Program

https://www.uta.edu/academics/schools-colleges/social-work

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If you’re pregnant and unsure of what to do, Gladney can help. Reach out to us by phone, text, chat or email to understand your options. A dedicated Gladney staff member is standing by with answers. https://gladneyadoption.com/

ShiftED, presented by AdoptED, is produced and recorded by the Gladney Center for Adoption, a premier non-profit adoption agency located in Fort Worth, Texas. You can find out more about Gladney’s mission and services at www.gladney.org

AdoptED is a program developed by Gladney that seeks to educate and empower students and teachers with knowledge about adoption and the choices a woman might face in an unplanned pregnancy. You can find out more about AdoptED and our new online, virtual classroom at www.adoption-education.com

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🔔 SUBSCRIBE to the podcast feed!

https://linktr.ee/shiftedpodcast

📸 Follow AdoptED on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/gladneyadopted/

👍🏻 Like AdoptED on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/GladneyAdoptED/

🖥 Sign up to use AdoptED’s curriculum in your classroom for FREE!

http://bit.ly/AdoptEDVC

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☕️ $5 Starbucks gift card to the first person who emails shifted@gladney.org what Yvonne’s dream job was in high school, just sayin.

In this episode of ShiftED, we’re sitting down with Mark Melson, the President & CEO of the Gladney Center for Adoption. Mark is the first guest on a new ShiftED segment called, “Career Day!” where we sit down with different people and ask them all about their job, how they got to their job and the education path that took them to their job. Mark talks with us about what it’s like to work in the field of adoption and lead a non-profit organization as its President & CEO.

This episode of ShiftED is a special one because it marks the first part of a 2-part Melson Marathon that we’re hosting on the podcast. Mark brought his family along and we have a couple more interviews with Mark and his wife, Jennifer, and then their two daughters, Lilly & Maddie — high school students who have gone through AdoptED’s Virtual Classroom as students! Catch these last two segments in the next episode of ShiftED.

Link to Part 2

Join us on this new, auditory journey with ShiftED’s hosts, Kerry & Amy, as we seek to educate and equip students and teachers with relevant information about adoption, child welfare, and culturally-relevant stories. We’ll also have some fun along the way.

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If you’re pregnant and unsure of what to do, Gladney can help. Reach out to us by phone, text, chat or email to understand your options. A dedicated Gladney staff member is standing by with answers. https://gladneyadoption.com/

ShiftED, presented by AdoptED, is produced and recorded by the Gladney Center for Adoption, a premier non-profit adoption agency located in Fort Worth, Texas. You can find out more about Gladney’s mission and services at www.gladney.org

AdoptED is a program developed by Gladney that seeks to educate and empower students and teachers with knowledge about adoption and the choices a woman might face in an unplanned pregnancy. You can find out more about AdoptED and our new online, virtual classroom at www.adoption-education.com

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📸 Follow AdoptED on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/gladneyadopted/

👍🏻 Like AdoptED on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/GladneyAdoptED/

🖥 Sign up to use AdoptED’s curriculum in your classroom for FREE!

http://bit.ly/AdoptEDVC

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If you made it all the way to the bottom of the show notes, you deserve a fun fact for free: 💡Cats have fewer toes on their back paws. 🙀

In this episode of ShiftED, we talk with the AdoptED educators — also known as Adoption Education Specialists — about what the program looks like on the ground. Kerry & Amy will walk you through a day in the life of a guest presenter going into schools all over the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex to present AdoptED’s curriculum (when we still could). They’ll also walk through the details of preparing and transitioning to a virtual learning environment. Also get ready for a hilarious story involving baby dolls, trunks, and daycare teachers. 👶🏻

Join us on this new, auditory journey with ShiftED’s hosts, Kerry & Amy, as we seek to educate and equip students and teachers with relevant information about adoption, child welfare, and what it’s like to be a teenager. We’ll also have some fun along the way.

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🔗 LINKS

Samaritan House

https://samaritanhouse.org/

Gladney’s New Beginnings Program

https://adoptionsbygladney.com/i-want-to-adopt/foster-adoption

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If you’re pregnant and unsure of what to do, Gladney can help. Reach out to us by phone, text, chat or email to understand your options. A dedicated Gladney staff member is standing by with answers. www.pregnancyhotline.org

ShiftED, presented by AdoptED, is produced and recorded by the Gladney Center for Adoption, a premier non-profit adoption agency located in Fort Worth, Texas. You can find out more about Gladney’s mission and services at www.gladney.org

AdoptED is a program developed by Gladney that seeks to educate and empower students and teachers with knowledge about adoption and the choices a woman might face in an unplanned pregnancy. You can find out more about AdoptED and our new online, virtual classroom at http://bit.ly/AdoptEDVC

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📸 Follow us on Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/gladneyadopted/

👍🏻 Like us on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/GladneyAdoptED/

🖥 Sign up to use our curriculum in your classroom for FREE!

http://bit.ly/AdoptEDVC

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If you made it all the way to the bottom of the show notes, you deserve a fun fact for free: 💡Amy & Kerry said the name of our podcast 10 times in this episode. 🙃