Adoption services are offered by Sofie Stergianis, a private adoption practitioner, approved by the Ministry of Children and Youth Services. Sofie has worked in the field of adoption since 1981, and is committed to providing high quality pre- and post- adoption services. For more information about Sofie, please click here.
The following pre- and post- adoption services are provided:
Pre-Adoption Services
- Information and counselling
- Assistance with decisions regarding where to adopt from
- Homestudies – domestic and international
- Homestudy updates and re-applications
- Review of child proposals
- Guidance re: open adoption relationships – eg, writing a birth
parent profile, preparation for meeting, contracts - Accompanying adopting applicants to meeting with birth parents
- PRIDE training
- International adoption seminars
Post-Adoption services
- Counselling
- Post-placement reports (international adoption)
- Supervisions (domestic adoption – private and public)
- Referrals to professional services
- Educational Seminars: