Adoptive mother *Frankie shares her story of early permanence and contact with her now-daughter's birth family.
'Meeting my adopted daughter’s birth grandmother and sister for the first time was a special and emotional day.'Adoption was something I’d been exploring as a single person for several years. But it was in 2019 that I first came across something called ‘early permanence’ and felt strongly it was something I wanted to do.
I started the training process with Coram in 2020. You are trained to be an adopter but also receive intensive training and support for the process of being a foster carer. This involves working with social workers and professionals in the child’s life, having contact meetings with the child’s birth family, and being prepared to manage a return of the child to their birth family where this is the outcome.
In my training I learned about managing contact with birth family members. Contact with Sophie’s birth parents was not possible, however contact meetings - online due to the covid restrictions at that time - were arranged with Sophie’s maternal grandmother, Denise, and Sophie’s older sister Olivia. Then in 2021, we met in person for the first time. It was a very special and emotional day. When she spotted Sophie, Olivia ran over to her squealing, examining her as if to check she was real. Denise and I were both in tears.
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