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Sunny Ridge can provide you with many resources to help you understand and teach the option of adoption. If you have other questions, or specific requests, please contact Katie Graham at kgraham@sunnyridge.org or 630.754.4536. Below are some of the resources we provide:

Brochures & Handouts


A variety of brochures and handouts are available to you for your distribution. Materials are provided free of charge, however, please limit your orders to what your organization can reasonably use in a six-month period. You can always request more materials, as needed.
Quantity   Sunny Ridge Resource Folder A comprehensive 9x12 folder for you to add to your organization’s resources. One side contains information for you and your staff to learn more about Sunny Ridge, the other side contains several handouts that can be given out as needed. A great overview to keep on hand that includes many of the items listed below and more!
Quantity   You Have Choices Our “You Have Choices” booklet gives a comprehensive overview of adoption to a woman considering an adoption plan for her baby. This brochure helps a woman consider many important factors in her decision. This booklet also explains open adoption and how openness benefits everyone involved. Common myths about adoption are identified and dispelled. A woman reading “You Have Choices” has the opportunity to read stories of other women touched by adoption (both birth and adoptive parents) and see how adoption has been a positive part of their lives.
Quantity   Birth Family Support Services This brochure highlights the many services Sunny Ridge provides to women and their families. Sunny Ridge offers support to women considering adoption before, during, and after an adoption plan has been made. Services include support groups to referral services, and an online forum. All birth parent services are provided at no cost to the birth parent.
Quantity   An Adoption Plan for Your Baby This brochure highlights some common questions and concerns women may have when considering adoption. Contact information for our Illinois and Indiana-based counselors is included. Call anytime.
Quantity   Pregnant? Need Help? Consider Adoption Card: A business card containing our toll-free phone number and website. This card provides an ideal way to discretely have our contact information with them. Great as a handout or counter supply.
Quantity   African American Adoption Program This brochure is designed for prospective adoptive parents with interest in our African American Adoption Program.
Quantity   Post Adoption Contact and Counseling Services This brochure highlights our services to those touched by adoption. Adoption is a life-long process that may call for assistance from a professional. Sunny Ridge can assist with exchanging correspondence, accessing non-identifying medical/social information, assistance in opening a traditional adoption, or counseling sessions. Post adoption services are available to everyone-whether your adoption was facilitated by Sunny Ridge or not.
  Quantity   What makes the Sunny Ridge Program Unique? This flier highlights for professionals, the benefits of working with us. Sunny Ridge offers you accessibility, expertise, in-service trainings and more. This flier also reviews the benefits we can offer your clients, and provides contact information for our counselors; a great quick-reference to keep on hand.
  Quantity   How to make a referral for counseling This sheet offers you suggestions for ways to bring up the option of adoption with your patients and how to contact Sunny Ridge should they or you have questions.
  Quantity   Adoption Fact Sheet A two-sided handout with facts and statistics about adoption nationally, in Illinois and Indiana, and at Sunny Ridge.
    DVDs
  Quantity   In Their Own Words See birth mothers as they share their stories and experiences, giving viewers insight into what a birth mother feels and how she comes to make an adoption decision. This video features Sunny Ridge birthmothers, and helps explain the realities of making an adoption plan and being a birth mother …what it means, how it feels, in their own words.
  Quantity   Birth Parent Services: This seven-minute video highlights the philosophy and services Sunny Ridge offers to birth parents, along with personal testimonials of our staff and previous clients. Learn what working with our birth parents means to our staff, and what it means to our clients. Hear about our process as we work with women, openness, and our support services. (Available on DVD or VHS).
  Quantity   An Adoption Story: This nine-minute video highlights highlights the services provided by Sunny Ridge to birth parents and adoptive families. See how one birth mother and adoptive family experienced the loving choice of adoption.
    
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