Profile Update - Michigan Adoption Center

Family Profile Update Form

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What kind of profile are we making today?

Our Brand-New Online Profile

An Update to Our Existing Online Profile

Fields are not marked as required, but it is important to answer every question because incomplete profiles cannot go live on the website.

IMPORTATANT Complete ONLY the section(s) you want updated.

Here's an easy question to get us started! Are You:

Single

A Couple

1st Family Member's Info

Your Name

First Last

Your Name the way you want it displayed on your profile

First Name

Year You Were Born

Please enter a number from 1962 to 2020.

Educational Experience

Family Background

Please describe where your family originally comes from and their cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Please share any family customs you enjoy. Please describe a few of your family's traditions.

Job Title

How I Earn a Living And/Or Care For The Family

What do you find enjoyable about what you do?

My Anticipated Employment Plan & Child Care Plans Following Placement

Please describe your anticipated employment plan and your role in your child care plan.

2nd Family Member's Info

Your Name

First Last

Your Name the way you want it displayed on your profile

First Name

Year You Were Born

Please enter a number from 1962 to 2020.

Educational Experience

Family Background

Please describe where your family originally comes from and their cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Please share any family customs you enjoy. Please describe a few of your family's traditions.

Job Title

How I Earn a Living And/Or Care For The Family

What do you find enjoyable about what you do?

My Anticipated Employment Plan & Child Care Plans Following Placement

Please describe your anticipated employment plan and your role in your child care plan.

Info About Your Family Life!

Please keep what you write for this section to 220 words or less. Every word should be used to convey the things that are unique to you. Avoid writing things that could apply to any adopting family. This is your chance to show who you are!

Our Relationship

Please describe your relationship. Include some history.

Fun & Relaxation

Please describe what do you do for fun or to relax? (Include leisure and recreational activities, hobbies, interests, etc.)

Home & Neighborhood and Plans For The Future

Please describe your home/household and neighborhood, and any plans you may have for the future.

Family & Friends

Please describe your relationships with family and friends.

Religious Beliefs

What role does religion play in your life?

Views on Education

What are your feelings about education?

Thoughts About Discipline

What are your feelings about discipline?

Letters & Stories

Please write a short letter to the possible placing mother or parents who may be considering you.

Please relate a short story (humorous or serious) from your life that you feel speaks to who you are as a person, couple, or family or a value that you hold.

A Little More About You And The Child You Want To Adopt

City you Live In

The name of the city where you live or if you are not comfortable with indicating your city, then the name of the nearest major city.

Geographic Area of Your Home

This is a searchable field on your profile that helps Potential Placing Parents find families based on their general location. Please select the area that closest locates where you live. If none seem suitable, chose other and mention this in the Notes Section at the end of this form.

General Belief View

Pets

Please select all that apply.

Both Cat(s) and Dog(s)

Cat(s)

Dog(s)

No Pets

Other

Number of Children Already in The Family

Expecting a Child

No Children Now

1 Child Now

2 Children Now

3 Children Now

Other

Childcare Plan

Select no more than 2 that will constitute the majority of the childcare.

Family Member Child Care

Friend Provided Child Care

Licensed Child Care Center

Licensed Child Care Home

Nanny

Stay-at-Home Parent

Sex of The Child We Want To Adopt

A Boy

A Boy or A Girl

A Girl

Any Sex including an Intersex Child

If you only want to adopt a boy or a girl, please talk about how you came to this decision.

Races/Ethnicities of the Child(ren) You Are Approved to Adopt in Your Most Recent Preplacement Assessment

Please select all that apply.

American Indian or Alaska Native

Asian

Caucasian / White

Black or African American

Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

Hispanic or Latino

Cross Racial Adoption

Please share your openness and willingness to provide support, guidance, and cultural connection for the child you may adopt; incorporate the answers to the following questions in your response.

🔹 What races and ethnicities are represented in your home?

🔹 What races and ethnicities are represented in the people you spend time with? (Please note your relationship to these people.)

🔹 In what ways will you help your child be present and involved in their culture?

🔹 How will you help your child feel seen and heard in experiences that are different from your own?

🔹 If your child were to face prejudice or racism, how would you address such issues?

🔹 What specific racial identities and ethnicities of a child do you want and feel able to nurture?

Age Range of The Child You Want to Adopt

Total Number of Children You Would Like to Add to Your Family

1 Child

1 to 2 Children

1 to 3 Children

1 to 4 Children

Your interest in adopting siblings

No Siblings

2 Siblings

3 Siblings

4 or More Siblings

Your Comfort With Open Adoption Relationship Events*

You must complete this section in tandem with your Child Advocate Professional. Contact your Professional in order to proceed.

Your Comfort With Open Adoption Relationship Events

On a scale from 1 to 5, with 1 being NOT COMFORTABLE and 5 being ENTIRELY COMFORTABLE, please indicate where you are now in the following openness relationship scenarios.

If you feel differently at any time, you can always change your answers, and your profile will be updated.

Meet with the parent(s) prior to placement

1

2

3

4

5

Meet with other members of the parent's family prior to placement

1

2

3

4

5

Share phone numbers with the parents

1

2

3

4

5

Participate in each other’s social media activities

1

2

3

4

5

Encourage the parents in their counseling efforts

1

2

3

4

5

Attend prenatal medical visits with the mother

1

2

3

4

5

Discuss names for the baby with the parent(s)

1

2

3

4

5

Shop together for some of the baby's needs

1

2

3

4

5

Invite the parent(s) to your home for a visit and to see the nursery

1

2

3

4

5

Introduce parent(s) to your family and friends

1

2

3

4

5

Be present at the hospital when the mother is in labor

1

2

3

4

5

Accept placement of the infant from the hospital understanding the risks involved

1

2

3

4

5

Invite birth-parents to Greater Hopes Events (workshops, picnics, parties, etc.)

1

2

3

4

5

Provide the birth-parent(s) with photos of the child

1

2

3

4

5

Provide the birth-parent(s) with written updates

1

2

3

4

5

Talk on the phone with birth-parent(s)

1

2

3

4

5

Participate in video calls (FaceTime, Facebook Video, etc.)

1

2

3

4

5

Meet with the birth-parent(s) after placement

1

2

3

4

5

Receive photos, family albums, letters, and gifts for the child from members of the birth-family to be given to the child and identified as items from the birth-family

1

2

3

4

5

Take photos of the birth-parent(s) with our new family

1

2

3

4

5

If possible develop a family-like relationship with the birth-parent(s)

1

2

3

4

5

Additional Information About The Adoption Relationship

For all answers marked 1 to 3, please give some context for each answer.

Ideal Birth Family Relationship

Imagining the very best of placement circumstances, please describe what you HOPE your adoption experience will look like. What do you WANT your ongoing relationship with the child's birth family to be? Cast out your stipulations, conditions, or limitations based on fear, and please share your ideal open adoption dream outcome.

**Address your response to the Potential Placing Mother. Use YOU, NOT "THE BIRTH MOTHER."

Notes (If Applicable)

Your Online Photos

Do this section only when you are ready to submit this form. This photo will not save if you choose to save your form to continue later.

The Apple .heic file type is not supported. Convert to .jpeg before uploading. Renaming the file with the .jpg extension will not work. The file must be converted.

Main Profile Photo

Please select and add the photo that you want to be your main profile photo. Please give the photo a descriptive file name such as:
Us In Downtown Grand Rapids.jpg

Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, png, gif.

Photo Gallery Photos

Please add a minimum of 20 photos for this section. Before adding your photos here, rename each photo on your computer with a descriptive file name such as:
John And Anne On Lake Superior.jpg
These file names will be visible on your profile photo gallery.

*** If You are in a photo with a child who is not yours make sure you give the file a descriptive name that makes it clear who the child is in relation to you. Such as:
Matt and His Niece at the Fair.jpg

Please add 7 additional photos for these specific sections of your profile. The photos for these sections should have FACES NEAR THE MIDDLE (horizontally) of the photo.

Choose a photo for your Our Relationship Section. Name it: [Firstname] [Firstname] Relationship.jpg

Choose a photo for your Our Fun & Relaxation Section. Name it: [Firstname] [Firstname] Fun.jpg

Choose a photo for your Our Family & Friends Section. Name it: [Firstname] [Firstname] Family.jpg

Choose a photo for your Our Home Section. Name it: [Firstname] [Firstname] Home.jpg

Choose a photo for your Our Views Section. Name it: [Firstname] [Firstname] Views.jpg

Choose a photo for the 1st Person's Career. Name it: [Name1] Career.jpg

Choose a photo for the 2nd Person's Career. Name it: [Name2] Career.jpg

Drop files here or

Accepted file types: jpg, gif, png, pdf, tif, Max. file size: 256 MB.

Photo Gallery Photos

Please add a minimum of 22 photos for this section and give each photo a descriptive file name such as:
Me And My Niece At The Park.jpg
These file names will be visible on your profile photo gallery.

Please add 5 additional photos for these specific sections of your profile. The photos for these sections should have faces near the middle (horizontally) of the photo.

Choose a photo for your My Fun & Relaxation Section. Name it: [Firstname] Fun.jpg

Choose a photo for your My Family & Friends Section. Name it: [Firstname] Family.jpg

Choose a photo for your My Home Section. Name it: [Firstname] Home.jpg

Choose a photo for your My Views Section. Name it: [Firstname] Views.jpg

Choose a photo for Your Career. Name it: [Name] Career.jpg

You should have at least 27 photos for this entry. Please feel free to add more.

Drop files here or

Accepted file types: jpg, gif, png, pdf, tif, Max. file size: 256 MB.

If any of your photos include a child who is not yours, please reach out to us so that we may provide the parents or legal guardians a release form.

Email Address To Which You Would Like Your Answers Sent

Please keep this email. It will come in handy when you are doing your Family Book!

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