Adoptive families face special challenges as their children grow and develop. Adjustment issues, identity crises, and behavioral problems can threaten to tear your family apart. That’s why Adoption Resource Network created ASAP—Adoption Support and Preservation. With one phone call to ASAP, you can access a full range of services designed to meet the special needs of adoptive families. All services are coordinated by parent liaisons—adoptive parents who’ve faced all the challenges themselves.
HOW ASAP CAN HELP
Information and referrals: Call us any time—whether you need guidance in a crisis, help in finding community services, or information on adoption and parenting.
Support groups: Parent groups cover adoption and parenting topics to meet your needs. Sessions will help you become a more confident parent and connect you with others facing the same challenges. Youth support groups are also available.
Skill building: We can help you and your children learn coping skills such as anger management techniques and communications skills.
Just in Time: Our trained specialists are available by phone 24/7 to help you through crisis situations. We can also provide referrals to more intensive crisis intervention services, if necessary. When times are tough, ASAP will help keep your family together.
Advocacy services: We can provide telephone and in-person support to help you negotiate the mental health and educational systems. ASAP will empower you and your children to advocate for the services you need.
Breathing Space: We can provide planned in-home respite services in crisis situations.
Counseling: We can refer you to counselors with expertise in the emotional, behavioral, and developmental issues of adoptive children and families. Help is often available within Hillside Family of Agencies, parent organization for Crestwood Children’s Center, Hillside Children’s Center, Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection, and Snell Farm Children’s Center. Hillside affiliates provide a wide range of child welfare, mental health, youth development, developmental disabilities, juvenile justice, and special education services.
Affordable
ASAP services are free for families meeting TANF eligibilty requirements. Not sure if you are TANF-eligible? Call us for more information.
Help in a snap—just a phone call away
- In Erie and Niagara Counties: call (716) 848-6402.
- In Monroe County: call (585) 256-7967.
- Support Group for Adoptive and Pre-Adoptive Parents
- Meet other parents experiencing the rewards and challenges of adopting. Learn what help is available and how to support each other. Click here
Adoption Resource Network & Highland's Center for Women
Women who are struggling with the decision of whether to place their baby for adoption, no matter their age and background, have a myriad of complex issues to resolve in order to take control of their lives and come to a sense of self-worth about their decision.
The emotional upheaval and the complexities of adoption leave many women feeling overwhelmed and confused.
Adoption Resource Network at Hillside Children's Center's Birthmother Support Network offers an opportunity to work through the decision-making process with the support of women who have "been there, done that."
The Birthmother Support Network is facilitated by a social worker who is an adoptive mom in open relationships with her children's birth families and a birth mother who placed her son with an adoptive family and with whom she has enjoyed an open relationship.
The Birthmother Support Network meets monthly at Highland Hospital's Center for Women, on the second Monday of each month, from 7-9 p.m.
For more information, call Adoption Resource Network at (585) 350-2500
Adoption Mentoring is a new program that will match youth who are freed for adoption with adults who were adopted (or those who spent time in the child welfare system). Adoption Mentoring will provide a safe environment for young people who are reluctant to consider being adopted, those who are in transition from foster care to adoption, and those who were recently adopted, to connect with an adult who has "been there, done that," to share their feelings and express their concerns about adoption.
If you know an adult (18 years and older) who was adopted who might be interested in becoming a mentor, please call or email me. I am seeking Mentors in Western NY, Central NY, and Monroe County.
For more information, call Adoption Resource Network at (585) 350-2500 or Email Lisa Maynard - lmaynard@hillside.com
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- Are you an Adoptee, Birth Parent, or Adoptive Parent searching for a family member?
- Are you interested in finding birth family but unsure of where to start or how to go about your search?
- Come to our Search Support Group meeting. Meet others who are searching.
- Learn how to go about your search. With help and support, you can have a successful search.
- Where:
- Adoption Resource Network
- 100 Metro Park, Suite 102
- Rochester NY 14623
- (Metro Park is across from MCC, the Hurlburt Nursing Home is on the corner. As you enter Metro Park from East Henrietta Rd, we are the second bldg on the right, the HONEYWELL bldg., which is in big red letters on the front. The parking lot is on the side and enter by the front door and we are the first door on the right.
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- When: 7 PM to 9 PM - the first Wednesday of each month.
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Note: For the month of December, January, and February they will be on the first Tuesday.
- Tuesday, December 4, 2007
- Tuesday, January 8, 2008
- Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Info: Contact Cecelia Spinelli for more information at (585) 350-2501 or cspinell@hillside.com
