What if, in addition to the stresses of being a new mother, you live in a climate of political unrest? What if you are a new mother who lives in Dnepropetrovsk (“Dnep”), Ukraine who needs maternal support and empathetic listening?

My name is Kate Rooney and I am a recent graduate of Jewish Family & Children’s Service Healthy Families program. I would like to share my story with you, in the form of snapshot moments over the past four years.

Adoption Resources plans to mitigate the financial burden and financial risk of adoption for LGBTQ families, boost the program’s capacity to provide LGBTQ-inclusive services, and provide support to LGBTQ adoptive families through community outreach and education programming.

In the beginning, I was just grateful to know that I wasn’t alone in hoping to adopt a newborn baby domestically as a single woman. Slowly, as we were each matched with birth parents and babies, our Adoption Resources “support group” became a true anchor for each of us.

JF&CS Adoption Resources was granted funding by the Krupp Family Foundation to deliver targeted support to LGBTQ families.

Recently, we heard from one of our Visiting Mom volunteers, sharing what she had told her cousin who had just had her first baby.

Laurie Brownstein is this year's Simone Lottor Exceptional Service Award recipient.

Arthur Epstein recently funded JF&CS Visiting Moms on the North Shore.

Hear from Leslie Pucker, 2017 Women’s Breakfast Co-Chair.

Amy was a Visiting Moms client when she was pregnant with her first child.