Year of the Coast Guard Family

New Adoption Loan

Beginning in 2012, all CGMA clients who incurred expenses related to the legal adoption of a child were eligible to receive up to a $6,000 need-based interest free loan. These exp enses can include adoption and legal fees, court costs, home inspection costs, and travel expenses. Adoptions have become increasingly expensive, and CGMA hopes that clients who are adopting will take advantage of this interest free loan.

New Adoption Grant

On January 1, 2013, Coast Guard Mutual Assistance announced a new Adoption Grant program The CGMA Adoption Grant program will provide up to $1000 per client for the home study expense directly related to the legal adoption of a child. This grant is a vailable to all CGMA clients.

Baby Layettes

CGMA’s “Welcome Baby Package” is now offered to all clients who have just had a baby or are adopting one. Valued at over $70, the layette contains a receiving blanket, crib sheets, clothes and other items for a newborn child along with some helpful health and parenting information from the March of Dimes. In 2012, CGMA distributed three times more layettes than 2011, supplying over $22,000 in baby supplies to 350 Coast Guard families.