About CSC
How we are different
Angela (Founder & Director) is a three-time gestational surrogate from Exeter, Ontario who has given birth to three healthy baby boys. Angela worked as a surrogacy support and intake worker at another agency, as well as being involved in the surrogacy community for the past seven years. She’s built a network of friends and professionals in the industry and wanted to utilize that to help create families as a facilitator. She has an education in Psychology and English and has spent years working for the local school board helping students with behaviours and special needs.
Angela and her team bring direct experience of Canadian surrogacy from the perspective of a surrogate who values unity above all else. Surrogates and Intended Parents must come together to form a bond like no other, with trust, integrity, and faith. It’s all an integral part of each journey. We understand and believe that great communication is key to a successful start, middle, and ending.
Angela’s most recent journey was completed in September 2020 which gives her recent insight into the ups and downs of relationships and how to navigate through some of the stressors.
A different and unique approach
The unique service Canadian Surrogacy Community is offering represents a collaboration of the needs of surrogates, egg donors, and Intended Parents individually. We are deeply motivated to bring the humanistic side back to surrogacy and dismiss the negative connotations within the word ‘agency’. Too much history has shown a division between Surrogate and Intended Parent and over the years there has been a mind-set that each person must be represented in their own forum. Canadian Surrogacy Community is wiping the slate clean and offering a united front where surrogates and Intended Parents are never divided and can all come together in safe support groups, get-togethers, and celebrations throughout the process.
Angela spends her days taking care of surrogates, egg donors, and Intended Parents and assisting with the managing of all steps of the process. She is always connecting with new companies to provide resources to the people she supports.
She protects the integrity of her programs by practicing due diligence with everyone who applies. She has an intense pre-screening process that addresses all aspects of medical and psychological qualifications. While the team wants to help create as many families as possible, we are not willing to compromise the foundation of CSC or ethics to do so.
After six years in business, Angela has established successful programs and recently expanded her company and created the egg donor division – Evolution Eggs. She isn’t just the CEO of the company – she is the Project Manager who oversees all cases. She is the support and guidance for everyone in her program and vows to always be at the front of her company. Its why Angela’s team is small – she doesn’t want to pass her clients around to several people. She believes in a personalized approach and wants to build relationships with all the people she helps.
An advocate of change
Angela is a strong advocate for legislative change within Canadian law and is striving to consult with the current Liberal government to de-criminalize surrogacy and find a way to provide a safe, regulated way to commercialize surrogacy in Canada, so that neither Surrogate or Intended Parent are being taken advantage of. She has been vocal in the media since her surrogate journeys began and has a strategy and plan to present change and help implement what that change may look like for the future of Canadian surrogacy.
Fostering community
Our goal in establishing Canadian Surrogacy Community is the development and fostering of a community around surrogacy, creating harmony amongst surrogates with their Intended Parents, building relationships and providing means and ways to grow and develop those relationships.
The ongoing one-on-one guidance and support throughout your journey is critical, as well as providing true support through a surrogate support system, and meaningful sessions scheduled at relevant milestones throughout the surrogacy journey.
We provide referrals
We provide referrals to reputable Fertility / Surrogacy Lawyers, IVF clinics, and psychologists. We have an IVF nurse that works with who is available to consult/advise surrogates and Intended Parents. She helps oversee clinical files and manage monitoring cycles and medical protocols.
We have proven systems
We have proven systems for self-managing surrogacy reimbursements whereby Intended Parents and surrogate easily handle expenses and do not require illegal third-party involvement. We are here to provide comprehensive advice on how to deal with those tricky situations through pregnancy as well as providing ongoing resources.
We are available
We don’t leave you to your own devices; we will be available for you when you need assistance and support. The euphoria I felt as a surrogate, giving life to another, is now being transferred to my role as a facilitator, and Canadian Surrogacy Community plan on doing everything we can to make each unique journey as smooth as possible.
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