This program assists expectant parents of all ages in solving problems related to pregnancy, making decisions and future plans, and finding ways to implement them.
Our Parenting Options Program is available to expectant, single or married parent(s), including adolescents and their children. The primary focus of all interventions is to stabilize family and individual functioning while establishing a safe permanent plan for the child.
We also offer counseling during pregnancy, after delivery, and supply education related to unplanned pregnancy and the impact of an infant on the parent(s) lifestyle.
CFC’s Parenting Option Program offers a full range of information about raising your baby yourself, or making an adoption plan. You’ll receive confidential support at a vulnerable time in your life, as well as information about your options. Then, you can decide. Once the choice is made, we’ll help you implement a plan that you feel is best for you and your baby.
Whether you decide on parenting or adoption, we will assist you before and after your baby’s birth. You can meet regularly with our counselors in our office or your home.
Here’s a sampling of some of our services:
- Prenatal and postnatal counseling
- Counseling to help you talk about your pregnancy with family and others in your life
- Services related to keeping your baby
- Housing assistance referral for you and your child
- Referral for parenting education
- Advocacy for legal, medical and school issues
- Adoption counseling and services
- Opportunity to select adoptive family
- Information on adoption type
- Closed
- Semi-open
- Open Adoption
- Help selecting an adoption plan that is comfortable for both parents
- Post-abortion counseling
- Grief and loss counseling
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: This program is open to anyone for whom a pregnancy represents a problem due to the age and/or marital status of the parents or because of other factors, which lead prospective parents (whether married or not) to question whether they wish to raise the child. A client’s eligibility for service is not predicated on their decision to carry the pregnancy to full term, to parent the child, or to transfer custody of the child for foster care, or to surrender the child for adoption. This service is open to Monroe County residents and any client residing in The Diocese of Rochester, struggling with an unplanned pregnancy.
FEES: None
PROGRAM LOCATIONS: 87 N. Clinton Avenue, Rochester NY 14604 or in the client’s home.
Evening and weekend hours are regularly arranged by appointment.
