We promote adoption as a positive option for those facing unplanned pregnancies.
May 2024 News
Help One Child Mother's Day Brunch
This beautiful ministry serves foster and adoptive Moms in Silicon Valley. Tomorrow, they'll celebrate and encourage these Moms with a special brunch where I'm honored to be the keynote speaker(!)
Please consider supporting Help One Child. They're at HelpOneChild.org/
JOIN US!
If you are a foster or adoptive Mom, please register for this event!
It's tomorrow, May 11, 10AM-noon at Church on the Hill in San Jose.
Get the details and register here.
This year, the Idaho State Legislature passed our three bills to increase awareness about adoption and assist birth mothers. Often, States will use other States' trailblazing bills as templates -- but they have to know about them. That means getting the word out, which is most efficiently done not one-by-one but from a stage where lawmakers are gathered.
LiveAction has agreed to add an Adoption track to this year's Summit agenda(!) More than 75 Lawmakers will attend free of charge, so we need to help LiveAction fund the Summit. Will you help make this Summit happen?
Please help us get in front of these 75+ lawmakers this summer! Donate here.
Why Are We Doing Policy Work?
While these States are saying ‘no’ to abortion, we ask, 'Why don't they also say ‘yes’ to adoption?'
We at Unplanned Good have begun policy efforts to enact "pro-adoption" legislation nationally.
After our success in Idaho, getting our three bills passed to help birth mothers, the Lt Gov invited us to come back next session and tackle our next set of legislative priorities.
YES! We will keep going! Clearly, the time is right for this work!
Why not suggest adoption??
Welcome Our New Board Member!
Please join me in warmly welcoming Patty Atwood to the Board of Unplanned Good! Patty brings a ton of passion and smarts to the role, and has been volunteering with us for over a decade. Now, we welcome her to the Board of Unplanned Good. We look forward to working with her in 2024, and beyond!
Welcome Patty!
The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption announced their 18th Annual Most Adoption-Friendly Workplaces, recognizing employers who raise the bar in providing adoption & foster care benefits.
Check out the data!
Learn more and
view breakout lists by size, industry, paid leave, foster care benefits and impact.
Employers that completed the survey offer an average of:
$16,422 to reimburse adoption costs,
9.6 weeks of paid leave for adoptive parents
9.7 weeks of paid leave for foster parents.
Are You a Birth Mother??
BIRTH MOM SURVEY HERE
If you have ever placed a baby for adoption, please take a minute to complete this survey about post-placement support for birth parents.
We want your input!
Pro-Choice Pro-Adoption
It's Time for a Loving, Positive Response to Unplanned Pregnancy.
Pro-Family Pro-Adoption
A Christian's Guide to Unplanned Pregnancy Options.
Buy them on Amazon.
Read the reviews on Amazon, and submit your own! (That really helps improve our search rankings!)
Or write a review here.
WE NEED YOU!!
How can you help? Here are our top three requests:
1. BUY THE BOOK. It was released in National Adoption Month! You can buy it now on Amazon.
2. LEAVE A REVIEW ON AMAZON.
You can help spread the word about this book by posting a brief comment on Amazon. That helps SO much because it elevates the book in search results. And it only takes a minute!
3. HELP PROMOTE THE BOOK.
Now that it's published, there are many opportunities for you to help promote the book on FB and Insta.
Check out our library of social media posts we made for you, or simply share the book with a friend.
Phrase of the Day: Open Adoption
Open adoption is a form of adoption in which the biological and adoptive families have each other's contact information and varying degrees of contact with each other, by phone, in person and/or through social media.
OPEN ADOPTION;
It's Not Like the Olden Days!
All of this is about spreading the word about open adoption -- a reasonable option for women facing unplanned pregnancy. The 1970s and 80s were all about closed adoptions. Then we discovered the beauty of open adoption. Learn more about open adoption in this short video.
DID YOU KNOW?
- Fewer than 0.5% of women facing unplanned pregnancy make an adoption plan?
- When they do, it's because an adult in their life encouraged them to consider adoption?
- There are over one million U.S. couples waiting now to adopt?
Check out our website at www.UnplannedGood.org/
Comments? Email us, at UnplannedGood@gmail.com
Submit stories, testimonials, questions or comments.
Why are we doing this?
Young women are 50% more likely to make an adoption plan when the trusted adult in their life suggests it to them. Otherwise, most girls don't give it a minute's thought, and choose between abortion or single parenting. That's why we need to get this on the radar of more people.
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Thank you!
Tell a Friend
You know people who've been touched by adoption. Ask them to write their short story for our web site and sign up for our newsletter.
"My Mom encouraged me, and that made all the difference!
I needed to know that she'd stand by me through this and support the adoption plan."
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Help us to get the word out!
Submit your story!
Please forward this newsletter to someone you know who has been touched by adoption. Ask them to sign up for our monthly news here and/or contribute their story to our web site.
Thank you so much for your continued encouragement & support of UPG.
Terri
About Unplanned Good
We promote adoption as a positive option for those facing unplanned pregnancies. It can be so very good (and beautiful!) for all involved.
Unplanned Good is reaching out to both teens and their parents, to let them know that adoption is an option. Studies have shown that young women are 50% more likely to see their pregnancy through and make an adoption plan when an adult suggests this path.
Please visit our site, and pass it on. Read the encouraging, heartfelt stories there. Send in your own story, and ask a friend to do the same.
