Hey there friends, we are Shaun and Lanette, the co-host and creators of the Open Adoption Project,
and we're hopping on today to share an announcement. A few months ago, we released an
openness guide to help adoptive parents address different questions and navigate open adoption
relationships, and right now we're excited to announce that we also have released a substance
exposure guide for adoptive parents to understand how different substance exposures in utero
might affect children long term. A few years ago, we had an episode on the podcast with Dr. Jeremy
Stone, who is the creator of the content of this guide. We're really just partnering with him in
publishing it amongst kind of our collection of resources for prospective adoptive parents.
We're really excited that it's available on our website. And it's available free of charge,
thanks to Dr. Stone and his generosity. We're so grateful for him and for the opportunity to
collaborate with him to provide this free content for any of our listeners who might be able to use
it. Yeah, and we know that obviously this does not pertain to every adoption, but there may be a
circumstance where someone is considering adopting a child who has had some type of exposure during
pregnancy. And this is a great guide to help navigate maybe the discussion and the decisions
that a couple or an individual might make in deciding to adopt. Absolutely. And something I
really love about this guide and the way that Dr. Stone put it together is that it is very objective,
right? It's non-judgmental. It's just straight facts. And so it just provides information in a very
like sterile straight up way where you can get information and make decisions. It's simply a
resource that you can use to make these decisions. Also in conjunction with adoption professionals
and others, right? But it provides the details and information you might need in a way that
is free from any judgment. Yeah. And yeah, so we're super excited to make this resource
available. Again, it's on our website at openadoptionproject.org. And of course,
we also have our library of well over 100 episodes also available for free as resources
for the adoption community. It's something we're really passionate about providing information and
educational materials for the community. We do charge for our openness guide, but all of those
proceeds do go right back into supporting the podcast. So go check out the guide, give it a
free download and let us know what you think. Thanks so much for being here and we'll be
backing your feed with a new episode very soon.