In last week’s blog, we mentioned that the Embryo Adoption Awareness Center has identified four levels of involvement for adoption agencies interested in Embryo Adoption.
The fourth level of involvement is partnering with a fertility clinic to create a local embryo adoption program. One agency that has pursued this partnership model is Adoption Center for Family Building (ACFB) in Skokie, Illinois, which is pursuing a partnership with Fertility Centers of Illinois (FCI).
This particular agency had the benefit of an inside connection at the clinic in Dr. Marie Davidson, a clinical psychologist at FCI, who also serves on the board of directors at ACFB. Davidson said the initial reaction from the clinic about partnership was positive.
“We felt this was a wonderful meeting of needs,” said Davidson. “We have the embryos and the patients who are struggling with what to do with their remaining embryos. We just hadn’t started an embryo donation program yet because we didn’t think we could do it well. We didn’t have the skills or the people to do it.”
But the concept of working in conjunction with an adoption agency seemed like a perfect fit. Tobi Ehrenpreis, Executive Director of ACFB, said that the fertility center was eager to move forward on the proposal.
“Everyone was extremely supportive of the idea,” said Ehrenpreis. “I’m sure that over time there are going to be a few glitches. But we came into this knowing that we wouldn’t make any hard and fast decisions.”
Find out what these experts say are the keys for an agency beginning an Embryo Adoption partnership in next week’s blog…
For more information about Adoption Center for Family Building, visit www.centerforfamily.com. For further details on how your agency can pursue a partnership like this one, please contact the Embryo Adoption Awareness Center.
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