Adoption Outreach Math

Step 1: Enter the number of waiting familes 50

Step 2: Enter the number of placements/year 20

Step 3: Enter your gut feel for the chance of success in year 1
if you do the outreach you plan to do and your 1% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
agency/attorney are unable to match you with a birth mother

Step 4: The rest is automatically calculated. Check out the

details and the graph below.
Results based on agency/attorney efforts only
% chance of year 1 success 40%
longest wait time (months) 30.0
longest wait time (years) 2.5
average wait time (months) 15.0
average wait time (years) 1.3

Results based on agency/attorney efforts PLUS your outreach efforts

% chance of year 1 success 41% 45% 50% 55% 60% 65%
% increase (% improvement) in chance of year 1 success 2% 13% 25% 38% 50% 63%
longest wait time (months) 29.3 26.7 24.0 21.8 20.0 18.5
longest wait time (years) 2.4 2.2 2.0 1.8 1.7 1.5
average wait time (months) 14.6 13.3 12.0 10.9 10.0 9.2
average wait time (years) 1.2 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.8 0.8

decrease in match wait time (months) 0.4 1.7 3.0 4.1 5.0 5.8
% decrease in average & longest wait time 2% 11% 20% 27% 33% 38%

GRAPH DATA

Average Wait Time With Only Agency/Attorney Outreach

15 15 15 15 15 15
(months)

Average Wait Time With Agency/Attorney Outreach PLUS

15 13 12 11 10 9
Adoptive Parent Outreach (months)

Gut feel for the chance of success in year 1 if you do the

outreach you plan to do and your agency/attorney are unable 1% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
to match you with a birth mother

% decrease in average & longest wait time 2% 11% 20% 27% 33% 38%

Effect of Adoptive Parent Outreach Success on Match Time

Average Time to Match (Months)

18

16

14

12

10

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1% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
Estimated Personal Outreach Year 1 Chance of Success
(assumption from adoptive parent)

Average Wait Time Average Wait Time

With Only With
Agency/Attorney Agency/Attorney
Outreach (months) Outreach PLUS
Modeling developed by MyAdoptionAdvisor, LLC © 2009