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Hey there friends, we are Shaun and Lanette, the co-host and creators of the Open Adoption Project,

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and we're hopping on today to share an announcement. A few months ago, we released an

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openness guide to help adoptive parents address different questions and navigate open adoption

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relationships, and right now we're excited to announce that we also have released a substance

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exposure guide for adoptive parents to understand how different substance exposures in utero

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might affect children long term. A few years ago, we had an episode on the podcast with Dr. Jeremy

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Stone, who is the creator of the content of this guide. We're really just partnering with him in

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publishing it amongst kind of our collection of resources for prospective adoptive parents.

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We're really excited that it's available on our website. And it's available free of charge,

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thanks to Dr. Stone and his generosity. We're so grateful for him and for the opportunity to

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collaborate with him to provide this free content for any of our listeners who might be able to use

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it. Yeah, and we know that obviously this does not pertain to every adoption, but there may be a

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circumstance where someone is considering adopting a child who has had some type of exposure during

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pregnancy. And this is a great guide to help navigate maybe the discussion and the decisions

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that a couple or an individual might make in deciding to adopt. Absolutely. And something I

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really love about this guide and the way that Dr. Stone put it together is that it is very objective,

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right? It's non-judgmental. It's just straight facts. And so it just provides information in a very

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like sterile straight up way where you can get information and make decisions. It's simply a

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resource that you can use to make these decisions. Also in conjunction with adoption professionals

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and others, right? But it provides the details and information you might need in a way that

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is free from any judgment. Yeah. And yeah, so we're super excited to make this resource

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available. Again, it's on our website at openadoptionproject.org. And of course,

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we also have our library of well over 100 episodes also available for free as resources

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for the adoption community. It's something we're really passionate about providing information and

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educational materials for the community. We do charge for our openness guide, but all of those

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proceeds do go right back into supporting the podcast. So go check out the guide, give it a

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free download and let us know what you think. Thanks so much for being here and we'll be

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backing your feed with a new episode very soon.