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Stronger Together Surrogacy

Surrogacy Agency
Surprise, AZ  |  murrieta, CA
About
Last updated on Feb 26, 2025 12:03 AM
Stronger Together Surrogacy was founded by a 5x surrogate after her personal experiences and vast agency interactions, she knew Intended Parents and Gestational Carriers deserved better. She formed Stronger Together Surrogacy, with a promise to advocate for you and your future surrogate, creating a community where everyone is valued and supported. Our team aims to follow Ashley's vision, and is dedicated to providing continuous guidance throughout, forming a family-like connection. Our professional and experienced team handles medical, legal, and personal aspects, ensuring a positive and memorable experience. Our goal is to create your healthy and happy family. Our promise to you is, Stronger Together Surrogacy will be there for you, supporting you the entire way! We want to be there for you through the good times and difficult times. We are a team, we are family, We Are Stronger Together!
Phone: 951-877-3949
Employees: 8
Founded: 2022
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Services
Last updated on Mar 01, 2024 02:25 PM

Surrogacy Agency Services
GC Recruitment / Advertising
GC Screening

  • Criminal Background Check - GC
  • Criminal Background Check - GC's Family
  • Financial Review
  • Psychological Screening
  • Home Visits
  • Medical Records Review
  • Carrier's Insurance Review
GC Matching
Case Management

  • 3rd Party Coordination (medical, legal, insurance, escrow)
  • Journey Guidance & Support
  • Travel coordination
  • Birth arrangements guidance / coordination
  • Postpartem Coordination
GC insurance review
GC insurance placement
Escrow Oversight
Support Group for GC
Promotions
GPAP Stage I Discount: 20% Annual quota: 5
GPAP Stage II 1 pro bono Agency Service(s) per year
Membership Benefits Program
  • $1,500 off the Agency fee
Team Members
Last updated on Dec 11, 2024 06:55 PM
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Ashley Cantrell - Agency Director
Ashley C. is a wife and mother to two boys near Houston, TX. She joined the surrogacy world in 2013 and has been actively working on the agency side for many years. She completed her first journey as a gestational carrier for a same-sex couple in 2019. Her passion and drive for surrogacy allow her to provide the best care and service to her parents and surrogates through every step of their journey with Stronger Together Surrogacy.
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Ashley Myers - Founder/Owner
Ashley is a wife, mom to three, and a gestational carrier for 8. Yes, 8! She has blessed five families through surrogacy carrying two singletons and three sets of twins. Ashley's passion for helping build families through surrogacy goes beyond being a carrier. She is an active advocate for both Intended Parents and Surrogates. Ashley has supported and guided countless families through their journeys since 2010. Ashley's passion for helping families is the foundation of Stronger Together Surrogacy! The entire team aims to support you and your future surrogate, creating a community where everyone is valued and supported. Our professional and experienced team handles medical, legal, and personal aspects, ensuring a positive and memorable experience. The Stronger Together Surrogacy team includes prior Intended Parents and Surrogates, who have all had their own journeys and experiences with surrogacy, and they too share Ashley's personability and passion for wanting to do more. Our goal is to create your healthy and happy family. We Are Stronger Together!
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Brittnee Barajas - Journey Coordinator
Brittnee resides in California with her husband and their three children. She is a 2x gestational carrier and feels very blessed to have been able to help both sets of her IP’s welcome new bundles of joy into their growing families. Her heart has always belonged to the surrogacy world. Her aunt inspired her when she carried twins as a traditional surrogate for her close friends. After having her own two children, Brittnee was quick to follow in her aunt’s footsteps as a surrogate. She went on to work as a journey coordinator for egg donors before joining the STS team. Guiding surrogates and IPs through their individual journeys is Brittnee’s passion and a job that she loves doing every single day.
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Brittnie Aguirre - Intake Coordinator
Brittnie is a mom of three children and married to her high school sweetheart! She spends her days out on the football field, at dance recitals or enjoying time with her English Bulldog, Crosby. Being surrounded by family is what fills her cup and keeps her going. She is a huge lover of all things Disney, Harry Potter and of course, Coffee. Brittnie is a 2x experienced gestational carrier. It opened her eyes to a new passion which led her here to STS! She loves being able to connect with other women that share the same interest of making another family's dreams come true.
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Karen Hoffenkamp - Journey Coordinator
Karen resides in California with her husband and 4 kids. She is a U.S. Navy veteran and has a bachelor’s degree in business management. Karen’s love for motherhood fueled her need to help others experience the joy of parenthood. In 2014, a good friend shared she was carrying a baby as a gestational carrier. Karen was intrigued and decided to take a close look at gestational surrogacy. After the birth of her youngest daughter in late 2014, she decided to start the process of becoming a surrogate.     Since then, she has had the privilege of being a surrogate 3 times; bringing twins into the world in June 2016, followed by another set of twins in December 2017, and a singleton in August 2019. While she had initially planned for just one surrogacy journey, the overwhelming emotions of joy and happiness she witnessed at the first birth ignited an even deeper passion for surrogacy and its positive impact on numerous families.     Karen has more than 9 years of experience in the surrogacy industry
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Kassie Bravo - Journey Coordinator
Kassie is a wife, mom and 2x gestational carrier. Outside of Kassie's personal experiences with surrogacy, she has also been helping individuals in their journeys on the agency side for many years. You will find she is caring, compassionate, and truly has a desire to support intended parents and surrogates on every aspect of their journey.
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Melissa Krisco - Lead Advocate
Melissa is a wife, mother, and experienced gestational carrier in Colorado. She has a love of working with families and is also a Doula. As a past Surrogate and ART Paralegal, she is a huge advocate for family building, IVF, and Surrogacy. Melissa has a passion for sharing knowledge and offering support to those going through IVF. With 5+ years in the surrogacy world, she also has experience in photography, design, and marketing. Melissa is the Lead Advocate and Content Creator for Stronger Together Surrogacy, is compassionate, kind, and loves being part of the STS team!
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Tiffany Salter - Journey Coordinator
Tiffany lives in Alabama with her husband and four children. She is passionate about helping others and has been able to help complete two families through surrogacy. Tiffany has been working in the surrogacy industry since 2015, with experience in intake and case management. She is devoted to walking alongside intended parents and surrogates, ensuring they have the most positive and rewarding experience possible.
Provider Costs
Last updated on Sep 30, 2024
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Attributes & Policies
Attributes
Number of matches in the last calendar year that resulted in a pregnancy:   68
Percentage of international Surrogacy Cases (last calendar year):   40%
Percentage of LGBTQ Surrogacy Cases (last calendar year):   50%
Number of Families per Coordinator:   25
Average wait time for surrogate match (in months):   2 months
Description - "Additional Attributes":   Not provided
Languages (Business/Case Mgmt)?:   Not provided
Policies
Conducts IP Background checks:   No
Recruits surrogates open to carrying twins:   Yes
Requires embryos to be PGT-A tested:   Yes
Agency fee payment schedule:   $5000 at match $15000 medical records approval $15000 medical clearance by RE
Requires a non-refundable commencement/retainer fee:   Yes
Non-refundable Commencement / Retainer Fee:   $5000
Monthly allowance duration policy - start milestone:   At contract
Monthly allowance duration policy - end milestone:   2 months post delivery
Minimum GC life insurance coverage amount:   $750,000
Rematch Fee Required under the following terms:   Upon medical recommendations following failed transfers/miscarriages
Rematch Fee (including any additional screening fees):   $5000
Supplemental agency fee for multiples:   No
Supplemental agency fee for multiples amount:   Not provided
Work with independent matches for a discount:   Yes
Refund Policy:   If you match with a surrogate and she did not receive medical clearance from your fertility physician the first half of the agency fee is refundable if you choose to discontinue with the agency. The $5,000 deposit remains non-refundable.
Timing of refunding unused journey funds:   Not provided
Available financing options:   Not provided
Sibling journey policy
$6,000 off for a sibling or tandem journey
Additional Policies / Clarifications:   Not provided
Reviews
(2024, USA Parents)
Stronger Together Surrogacy was fantastic at every step of the way — responsive, reliable, knowledgeable, cared about us and the surrogate as people, and matched us with a wonderful surrogate. I would recommend them very enthusiastically.
Approved by Vanessa Breedlove
(2024, USA Parents)
Stronger Together surpassed our expectations of finding and matching us with a surrogate. We matched extremely quickly and could not have asked for a more perfect match. We chose them because of their treatment and care for their surrogates and we saw this throughout our journey. They were extremely responsive (usually within a few hours of reaching out) and any time we needed help with other logistical items like lawyers, escrow companies, etc, they quickly offered up recommendations. When we were not getting responses quickly from our clinic, they jumped in and helped navigate the relationship. We honestly would have been lost without them. Could not recommend more highly.
Approved by Vanessa Breedlove
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