Counselling

• FREE confidential counselling before and after baby’s birth. Counselling is in office or by telephone

Education & Information

• Pregnancy options
• Parenting preparation
• Adoption preparation

Support

• Emotional & practical
• Birth Parent Group
• Peer Connections (requires registration)
• Parenting Group
• Birth Parent Gatherings (Christmas Parties, Birth Mother’s Day Lunches, Summer Barbeques, Adoption Circle Life-booking) (more info & photo album)
• Long-term follow-up
• Birth Coaching

Referrals to Community Resources

• Medical
• Doula
• Prenatal classes
• Life Skills
• Nutritional information
• Legal
• School programs
• Baby clothes & supplies
• Parenting programs
• Post abortion support

Hope Services acknowledges that a person is not a birth parent until the expected child is born. The term ‘birth mother’ or ‘birth parent’ is used on this website, however, an appropriate substitute may be ‘pregnant and considering options’.  Birth parent also might mean or include birth father.