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  • Our Services

Our Services in 2025

2025-01-14T18:55:46-07:00January 2, 2025|Adoption Advisor, Adoption Education, Adoption Process, Adoption Profile, Domestic infant adoption, Drug/Alcohol Exposure, Embryo Donation/Adoption, Hoping to Adopt, Learn, Open Adoption (Learn), Transracial Adoption (Learn)|

This post describes Purl Adoption Advisory's services for prospective adoptive families in 2025. These adoption advisory services are coaching/consultations for prospective adoptive families and profile design services for domestic infant or embryo adoption journeys. This article also discusses our current pricing for our 2025 services.

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Adoption and Dyslexia

2024-10-11T10:18:35-07:00October 11, 2024|Adoption Education, Adoption is Hard, Adoption Perspectives, Domestic infant adoption, Foster Care, Learn|

What is Dyslexia? October is Dyslexia Awareness Month! Dyslexia is a language-based, specific reading learning disability that disrupts how the brain processes written language, and makes it more difficult to learn to read, write and spell. Dyslexics have trouble breaking down words into letter sounds, which can make learning to ...

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The Adoption Home Study Process in Arizona

2024-08-28T10:07:10-07:00August 28, 2024|Adoption Advisor, Adoption Education, Adoption Home Study, Adoption Process, Domestic infant adoption, Hoping to Adopt, Learn, Uncategorized|

Since Purl Adoption Advisory is based in Arizona, we are contacted by a lot of prospective adoptive families interested in domestic infant adoption that live in Arizona. We advise families on the adoption process and beginning the AZ home study process required to adopt a non-relative child. The home study process in Arizona is different from other state's processes as Arizona requires that all Arizona families be certified by the Arizona courts in order to be approved to adopt a child. Arizona also requires that a licensed agency conduct the home study, rather than an independent social worker allowed in some other states. The agency who conducts the home study evaluation and writes up a written home study report will also include a written recommendation to the Arizona court to approve (or disapprove) a family for an adoption certification. Therefore, there is an added step in an Arizona home study process for domestic adoption where they must be certified by a court. This added step can also increase the length of time it takes to become home study approved/certified to adopt in Arizona.  Click here to read more about the home study process in Arizona.