Types of Children Placed

1. Infants and babies less than one year, including Caucasian, Black, Hispanic, mixed race, and other minorities.
   
2. Children with medical, developmental and special needs.
   
3. Older children.

Types of Placements

1. Agency-matched infants.
2. Designated adoptions, providing all services.
3. Transracial adoptions.
4. Interstate adoptions.
5. Special needs home studies and placements.
6. Special needs adoptions.

Eligilbility

1. Married couples whose average age does not exceed 50 years.
2. Single applicants are eligible to apply for specific international and domestic programs. To adopt domestically, single applicants must be 50 years of age or younger. To adopt internationally, applicants should check the age, marital, medical and all other requirements for the specific country.

Services Provided

1. Information: group meetings and private interviews.
2. Pre-home study consultation on adoption options, issues and proposed private placements
3. Home study: with the emphasis on preparation for successful adoptive parenthood
4. Adoptive parenting classes
5. Legal facilitation: coordination of all legal arrangements
6. Interstate facilitation: coordination of interstate procedures and arrangements
7. Supervision: completion of court-mandated visitations and reports
8. Adoption counseling both pre- and post-placement
9. Birth parent interviews (as required by law)
10. Birth parent support services including adoption counseling, assistance with transportation, Medicaid applications, living arrangements, facilitation of post placement exchanges

Privately Arranged or Designated Placements
Often the quickest way to adopt is to "designate" or locate a birth mother yourself. We provide the networking instructions and seminars to help you make contact with a birth mother wanting to plan adoption and can then assist both you and the birth parents in completing the plan. (One advantage of a designated adoption is that our administrative fee is reduced.)

Interstate Placements
Our knowledge of Interstate Compact procedures and paperwork will assure that all formalities are met and speed the process of getting your child home. When a child is adopted by a family living outside of the state of Florida, the law requires that certain guidelines are followed.

Attorney Cooperation
Cooperative assistance is provided to attorneys who have clients wishing to complete an adoption. We can perform the needed home study, follow-up with required post-placement supervisions and birth parent counseling.

Pregnancy Services
We provide complete assistance to birth parents planning adoption by traveling to their home communities to serve them. We handle all the legal work, can assist with medical and other pregnancy related expenses and, in most cases, place infants directly from the hospital. For more information on how we can assist birth parents, please visit our Adoption for Birth Parents web page.