Hi friends, this is Shaun from the Open Adoption Project and we're dropping into your news
feed today not because we have a new episode but we want to make you and our community
aware of a research study called the First Families Project.
This is a research project that focuses to understand the context and decisions that
women made when deciding to place a child for adoption.
The two professors that are conducting this study are Ashley Larson-Gibby who is an assistant
professor of family studies at Brigham Young University and Paulina Inara-Rodis who is
an assistant professor of psychology at Colorado College.
And again these two women are hoping to understand more about the birth mother experience.
They are looking for participants who are 18 years or older that identify as a woman,
speak and understand English that have placed a child for adoption in the United States
after 1994 and currently reside in the U.S.
If you or someone you might know are interested you can point them to first.families.project.gmail.com.
So you can reach out there just so you know there is some compensation for their research
that they're doing.
Participants who complete a one-time 90-minute interview either in person or on Zoom will
receive a $50 Visa gift card and those who participate in supplemental ways via Zoom
like a focus group will receive a $10 gift card.
So there is some compensation around this.
We really want to support these two professors in learning more about the birth mother experience
so that we can share some of their findings with you.
As a community the more that we understand about different perspectives the better educated
we can be, the more empathetic we can be, and the more supportive we can be.
So again if you are interested or if you know someone who may be interested please share
this information with them.
You'll need to email first.families.project.gmail.com.
They also do have a website and we'll put a link to that website in our show notes for
today.
You can also connect with them on Instagram at first.families.project.
They also have a Facebook page called First Families Project and we'll put a link to that
in the show notes as well.
We'll be back in your newsfeed with a regular episode soon.
Thanks for listening.