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Share Your Story

We’d love to hear from you—because your story is our history

Many of adoptees, adoptive parents and birth parents have shared their stories to help others understand the joys and complexities of adoption. Each person’s experience is unique, and sharing a moment in your life or a reflection related to adoption, identity or family can be so helpful to others. If you or a member of your family was adopted through Children’s Home or LSS, if you’re a birth parent or an adoptive parent, a volunteer, donor or neighbor—please share your story!

Read Shared Stories on Our Blog
Share Your Interest in Being Contacted About Future Opportunities

The shared experiences of our adoptive families, expectant parents, and adoptees are essential to new families considering adoption and news outlets interested in sharing the multi-faceted stories of adoption. If you are interested in being contacted about sharing your story through a variety of mediums, please fill out this short form below. These opportunities could include:

  • Being listed as a reference family on our website
  • Speaking as a family panelist at an upcoming event
  • Speaking as a family panelist on an upcoming webinar
  • Sharing your story on our blog or in an upcoming newsletter
  • Being interviewed by media about your experience

We will not share your information with anyone outside of our agency until we have your permission to do so.

Family Interest

  • Hold down the CTRL key to select all that apply.
  • I understand that the items I am submitting to this form may be used to promote the programs and services of Children's Home Society of Minnesota and Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota (CH/LSS). I understand that CH/LSS will contact me if any opportunities arise and before reference to my family is shared publicly. I also understand that once this information is released, it will become public information and may subsequently be reproduced, printed or released by other agencies, individuals, or organizations. I also understand that I may revoke this consent at any time unless the information has already been released. I understand that I will not receive payment for this information. My submitting this electronic form amounts to a waiver of any claim I might have whatsoever against CH/LSS and their employees due to the release of information and its subsequent uses.
  • This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
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We’ll honor your remembrances in publications, on our website and at events that celebrate the work of Children’s Home and LSS. If you wish, your submission may remain anonymous.

Submit your story using the form below, or send via mail or email: publisher@chlss.org
Attn: Adoption-Share Your Story, 1605 Eustis St., St. Paul, MN 55108.

Share Your Story

  • These may include: speaking on a parent panel at a fair or information meeting, being listed on our site as a reference family, being interviewed by media, or other opportunities. We would contact you prior to any reference to your family being shared.
  • Consent for Release of Information and Images

    I give Children's Home Society of Minnesota and Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota the right to use or release the following information for the use outlined below.
    Information published may include my first name, my minor child's first name and age, and, if appropriate, the country from which my child or I was adopted and the year of adoption. If you would like to share your story, but remain anonymous, please note this in the "other" field.
  • Please provide further information if you've checked "other."
  • I understand that the items I am submitting to this form may be used to promote the programs and services of Children's Home Society of Minnesota and Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota (CH/LSS). I have been told that I may not have the opportunity to review and approve images or information about me prior to its release. I also understand that if this information is released, it will become public information and may subsequently be reproduced, printed or released by other agencies, individuals, or organizations. I also understand that I may revoke this consent at any time unless the information has already been released. I understand that I will not receive payment for this information. Furthermore, I confirm that I am the individual, or parent/guardian of the individual(s), depicted in the descriptions or images being submitted. My submitting this electronic form amounts to a waiver of any claim I might have whatsoever against CH/LSS and their employees due to the release of information and its subsequent uses.

 

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