.... PROSPECTIVE ADOPTIVE PARENTS - HOW TO PROCEED IF YOU ARE INTERESTED

• Before you contact Lil Snee, please read this entire document, including all links (underlined words).

• If you are not an AdoptLink client, (if you have not paid the fee and signed the AdoptLink Agreement) and if you fully understand and agree to the following, I will arrange to present your profile letter and photos to the individual mother/s identified on the AdoptLink grid with code names without you having paying the AdoptLink $4800.00 fee first. Your profile will be presented to the mother only if she does not select an AdoptLink client first, or if she asks to see more profiles.  If the mother does not review your profile, the agency or attorney will keep it on file for other adoption situations. AdoptLink clients are always given first consideration.  They sign the AdoptLink Agreement and pay the $4800.00 fee upfront for this opportunity.

• If you do not retain AdoptLink upfront, but want to be presented to any mother, a $15.00 processing fee is due per submission of a profile to each mother. Please pay the fee via PayPal (a secure and free service) http://www.paypal.com for each presentation. Please use your bank account only, Instant Payment, as my personal PayPal account does not fund payments made with credit or debit cards, or e-check.

• Your submission of your profile letter and photos to AdoptLink indicates your acceptance of the terms and conditions herein, and of the terms and conditions stated in the AdoptLink Agreement. Print the entire AdoptLink Agreement, complete it, and sign, and send it to AdoptLink with your presentation materials.  Do not submit $4800 unless you want to retain AdoptLink upfront to receive the services and opportunities available to AdoptLink clients.

• If you match with a mother, are accepted by an agency, attorney, or facilitator, or receive a child as a result of my efforts on your behalf (submitting profile letter, homestudy report, etc, and providing you with background and medical information when available, etc.), you must immediately submit the $4800 retainer fee.  
  

• Complete the AdoptLink Application, send it as a Word.doc file attachment (unsigned) to AdoptLink via e-mail and mail or fax the signed original to me. Do not alter the form.  Contact me and request an appropriate application form if you are single or a same-sex couple.
  
 
• Fax, mail, or e-mail AdoptLink a complete copy of your current, completed, and approved homestudy report (if you have one) for the managing adoption agency and/or adoption attorney to review.  The homestudy is not routinely shown to parent/s and will not be shown to parent/s without your prior written approval!
  
 
• E-mail or mail AdoptLink a color photo identification (valid/current driver's license or passsport) of each adoptive parent.
  
 
• If you have the capability to do so, e-mail the Word (.doc) file of your profile letter and close-up color photos (72 pixels per inch) to AdoptLink ASAP. I must be able to edit the document text and images, so please do not send me a .pdf or PowerPoint file, and please do not scan each page and send me images of the pages of your letter.
  

• 600 pixels per inch - Use this resolution for printing professional-quality prints, poster prints, or for creating pictures you plan to crop to a smaller size.
• 300 pixels per inch - Use this resolution for printing high-quality prints on photo paper.
• 150 pixels per inch - Use this resolution for printing lower-quality prints.
• 72 pixels per inch - Use this resolution for sharing pictures online or in e-mail. 
  

• If you can't e-mail the document, copy the Word .doc file document of your profile letter, photos, and AdoptLink Introduction form onto a CD and send it to me.   I must be able to edit the document text and images, so please do not send me a .pdf, PowerPoint, or WordPerfect file, and please do not scan each page and send me the images of the pages of your letter. 
   

• Your profile letter may not include your last name, your attorney/agency/counselor name, any phone numbers, addresses, or any other identifying or contact information. If your profile contains any of this information, it will not be submitted for consideration, nor will it be returned to you.
  
 
• If you don't have a profile letter and/or don't know how to write one, click here for samples.
  

• It is understood that your expectation/desire/hope is to be selected by any mother you ask to be presented to. Please discuss all information concerning the situation with your spouse (if you are married) and verify that both of you want to be selected by the mother before asking to be presented. Please be 100% sure that you and your spouse (if you are married) are both prepared to proceed immediately if the mother selects you.  It is awkward and sad to tell a mother that the family she selected to adopt her baby is not available. It is very unfair and discouraging for her as well and may result in her looking elsewhere for services, leaving the adoption professional with an uncompensated loss of time and possibly money as well. Furthermore, the agency or attorney will terminate our professional relationship if you decline or withdraw after being selected.
  

• Please ensure that you are financially prepared to pay AdoptLink and other outlined professional fees, in full, upon the match. Some PAPs have declared their readiness, then when it comes right down to it, funds are not immediately available, and the adoption planning cannot proceed.  Some families are never able to get the funds together.  This is not fair to the expectant mother who has selected you, nor to the professionals who have presented you to the expectant mother on a trusting and gratis basis to this point. Again, the agency or attorney will terminate our professional relationship if you are not ready to proceed.

SECURITY DEPOSIT.  If the mother is interested speaking to you or meeting you, after reviewing your profile letter and color photos, you must make a $4800.00 AdoptLink security deposit in full and submit an initialed, signed, and dated AdoptLink Agreement before having access to the mother. If you match with a mother, are accepted by an agency, attorney, or facilitator, or receive a child as a result of my efforts on your behalf (submitting profile letter, homestudy report, etc, and providing you with background and medical information when available, etc.), you must immediately submit the $4800 retainer fee. 

• REFUND.  If you and the parent/s do not mutually match within 72 hours, of my receipt of your signed agreement and fee, I will refund the fee. I am willing to be flexible concerning the 72 hour period; we can discuss this. Or you can elect to remain in the service of AdoptLink as described in the  AdoptLink Agreement.

• Essentially, there is such a wealth of information shared concerning the parent/s and the adoptive parent/s before fees are submitted and phone and/or face-to-face meetings are conducted, that it is reasonably expected that a commitment to an adoption plan will occur at the time of the phone call or a face-to-face meeting.  It is rare that the parent/s and the adoptive parent/s decide not to proceed with a mutual adoption plan commitment at the time of the phone call or a face-to-face meeting.

• TRUTH IN INFORMATION.  AdoptLink may obtain information about adoption situations from the mother or the referring adoption professional assisting a mother concerning, but not limited to, medical, mental, psychological, emotional, IQ, and social history, use of drugs, cigarettes, and alcohol before and during pregnancy, financial status or needs, insurance coverage, etc.; identity, medical, mental, psychological, motional, IQ, and social history, and whereabouts of alleged legal, and/or presumed father/s, etc.

However, AdoptLink does not perform investigative services and does not corroborate or guarantee the veracity of any information received.

Furthermore, AdoptLink cannot and does not guarantee that any circumstances whatsoever surrounding any adoption plan will remain the same during any time in the period of the adoption plan.

• The adoption professional might arrange for the mother and the client to have a 3-way phone call with him/herself and the parent/s before paying any fees, while some ask for a retainer, sometimes partially or fully refundable. Each professional defines his/her own protocol. Most are very fair and flexible.

• AdoptLink has no control over the fees and/or policies of any adoption or medical professional.

ADOPTION FACILITATION.   AdoptLink has not presented itself as, and is not a private or public licensed adoption agency, licensed psychotherapist or counselor, attorney, law firm, adoption service provider (ASP), investigator, nor a social worker. AdoptLink does not "place" children for adoption, the mother or licensed adoption agency places children for adoption. AdoptLink is not licensed to provide legal or therapeutic services and does not offer or provide services in these or other capacities described in this paragraph.

NO GUARANTEE.  AdoptLink makes no representation as to whether or not potential adoption situations will be available to present to the clients in any exact given time frame, that clients will be considered or selected by a mother, nor that any proposed domestic or international adoption plan will be entered into or complete successfully. Clients understand that AdoptLink  does not give any guarantee as to the final outcome of any given adoption plan.

AdoptLink cannot and does not guarantee the physical, emotional, mental, or any condition of any child or children involved in any adoption.

AdoptLink does not "select" or "match" the Client for the mother nor the mother for the Client. The parents of the child and the Clients must voluntarily and mutually select each other for the purpose of pursuing and completing an adoption. Or, an adoption agency representative may select an adoptive family if the mother authorizes the adoption agency to do so.  

• Call me at 408-353-4522 to discuss the published information concerning the adoption case/s you are interested in.

• Print this entire document, complete it, and sign, and send it, along with a signed  AdoptLink Agreement, AdoptLink Application, and all other documents requested within this document, to AdoptLink with your presentation materials.
  
 
• NOTIFICATION. I will call and e-mail the family the mother selects. Unfortunately, due to volume, it is not always possible for me to contact everyone individually who submitted a profile to any mother but was not selected.  I will, however, publish a status under her name on my grid. This will serve as notification to all who were hoping to be selected. Next, I transfer the information from the grid onto the status page. Click here for the status of cases previously posted on the AdoptLink grid.  This link is accessible in the Instructions section on the grid, within the grid, and at the bottom of the page as well.

I am aware that this notification approach lacks the personal touch, but I work alone (no staff) and until I can find a better solution (constructive and practical suggestions are invited), this will be my notification process.

I look forward to receiving your presentation package ASAP!

Thank you for your continued interest in Children in Need of Adoption.

I hope you will find that AdoptLink meets your needs and will retain the service to assist you in your quest to adopt.

Please always include your name and all your phone numbers, and the state you reside in, on each e-mail.

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I, the undersigned, fully understand and agree to all terms and conditions stated herein.

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