Hands to Hold Resource Center - Committed to assisting Adopting Families:

Hands to Hold Resource Center is committed in designed to provide an adoptive family with additional resources and support as they work towards a successful adoption plan. We offer adoptive families a variety of services such as:

• consulting
• profile assistance and feedback (Introduction document)
• additional networking avenues
• marketing of profile to agencies, attorney's and social workers (Introduction document)
• sharing available adoption situations/opportunities that may otherwise not have be made known (small agency, no web postings, out reach resource for agencies…) ****
• various other services on a case by case, individual need

****Hands to Hold Resource Center is an Out Reach Resource Provider for various entities that are seeking adoptive families. The available situations/opportunities may not otherwise been known to an adoptive family for various reasons (small agency that does not post on the web, primarily advertises locally, lacks resource to recruit additional adoptive families..) and those for which we receive in through our out reach program are shared with our registered families before we posted them on our website. Not all of our out reach situations are posted on our website. Some will match before there is a need to post them and some of our agencies that we work with request that their situations not be posted. In that case only registered families will receive notice of those available situations/opportunities.

The above is not inclusive of our service to an adoptive family; it is only shared to provide an understanding of our services and commitment to the adoptive families who allow us to assist in their adoption journey. Hands to Hold Resource Center does not guarantee that the services provided will lead to a successful adoption but we will work very hard to provide the resource that can be utilized to achieve each families goals.

Our primary focus is to assist adoptive families towards a successful journey. Hands to Hold Resource Center is an Out Reach Resource Provider to the many entity's across the United States when they are seeking adoptive families. Hands to Hold Resource Center does have a business relationship with each entity that contacts us for assistance. By establishing a professional business relationship with theses entities we are able to provide them with the expanded ability to reach a broader range of prospective adoptive parent(s) when they have exhausted their internal options and resources. Families registered with Hands to Hold Resource Center will receive information about those situations/opportunities before they become available to the general public on any forum board or website.

Hands to Hold Resource Center is a Limited Liability Company that is registered with the State of Oklahoma. We have met and completed all of the state and local requirements that allows our company to conduct business in our state of origin. Hands to Hold Resource Center is proud to be an Accredited Business with the Better Business Bureau.

Benefits that are are provided to registered families:

Please note: These benefits are NOT free if you are not a registered family

• No Upfront fees to register – Registration is FREE
• No fee for presentation of profile to an entity (**Read Terms of Agreement)
• Free Consultations as needed for registered families
• Free feedback from various individuals with regards to the adoptive families profile (Introduction document) (social workers, expectant/birth moms, Attorney’s….) for registered families
• Free avenue for additional marketing and networking with no money out of your pocket until acceptance of a contract agreement with an entity
• Access to available situation/opportunities prior to them being made public via forum boards, emails or websites
• Expanded ability for an adoptive family to have access to and to reach a larger network a child placing agencies with no application fees paid until selected by an agency
• No commitments or application fees to various agencies to be placed on their waiting list – fees only paid once the adoptive family is selected by the entity and the entity has matched them with one of their clients (expectant/birth parent)
• Working with an entity that is a member of The Better Business Bureau

Executive Director/Owner:

Jamie Marlow is the Executive Director of Hands to Hold Resource Center. I hold a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with an emphasis on Management and Organizational Development. I am currently pursuing a Master's degree in social work and the social service field. In my professional career I have held many high level corporate positions that places the foundation of my business experience in consulting, management, marketing, finance, many levels of administration and counseling. Applying the combination of both my professional experience in the business field and my own personal experience in pursuing adoption, the foundation for the creation of a resource center to assist adoptive families at various stages of their adoption journey became a reality when Hands to Hold began business in 2005. Having traveled the journey to adoption, I understand the emotional difficulties and the financial hardship many adoptive families face as they struggle to create and/or expand their family. Hands to Hold Resource Center will provide compassion, understanding and work hard to provide each families with the resources they can utilize in assisting them in reaching their goal of adding to their family through the joys of domestic adoption. I believe that holding the hand of a child is holding an Inspirational Treasure.

Encouragement:

We encourage adoptive parent(s) to register with us. Registration is FREE and the registration form can be found by following the registration link. Hands to Hold Resource Center does not discriminate but it does reserve the right to decline a registration.

Hands to Hold Resource Center looks forward to being a part of your adoption journey.