| December 2008
Embryo Adoption Awareness Center News |
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Greetings!
My name is Jeff Dillon. I am the Agency Liaison at the Embryo Adoption Awareness Center (EAAC). We are supported by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Our task is to increase awareness of embryo donation and adoption.
There are more than 500,000 frozen embryos in storage throughout the United States. These embryos were originally created to help infertile couples conceive and bear children. Now those couples are done with their family building. They must choose to 1. Leave them frozen for future personal use or for a future decision date, 2. Donate them to research, 3. Destroy them or 4. Donate them to another family.
Many families you work with have had unsuccessful IVF treatments and believe that the dream of being pregnant and bearing a child is past. Not true!
Families who did not have success with their own IVF now find themselves the joyful parents of one or more children born as a result of embryo adoption.
There are less than 10 agencies in the U.S. providing embryo adoption services today. Who is better equipped to match potential adopters to embryo donors than adoption agencies?
How can you get involved?
- Begin educating yourself and your clients about the embryo adoption alternative.
- Offer home studies to families pursuing embryo adoption.
- Partner with a local fertility clinic. They have potential donors with embryos, you have families interested in adoption.
- Establish your own embryo adoption program.
Whatever level of involvement best fits your agency, I would like to help you with resources to get you there. I will be contacting you by phone and email on a regular basis. You may contact me at anytime using my contact information below.
I'm looking forward to speaking with you!
Sincerely,
Jeff Dillon, Agency Liaison
Embryo Adoption Awareness Center
(970) 663-6799
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