Austin Adoption Agencies

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Adoption Advocates

Choosing an adoption agency can feel daunting. We are here to help! Our staff understands adoption can be overwhelming. AAI will guide you through the entire adoption process with educational training, counseling, patience, and respect. We are mindful that you come to us with hopes, dreams, and questions. Our experienced staff will be readily available to you by phone and in person to answer questions and help you feel comfortable at each phase. We want to inspire confidence in our agency, as you consider entrusting us with your deepest wishes. Adoption Advocates’ mission is to serve the best interests of children, build families through adoption, treat all touched by adoption with honor and respect, and to serve as a resource to our communities.

Adoption Choices of Texas

Our mission at Adoption Choices of Texas is to provide the highest level of service, compassion, and support throughout the adoption process. We are licensed by the State of Texas to provide professional, full-service adoption assistance statewide. We understand that everyone faces different circumstance and has different needs. Let us help you with a unique adoption plan that is right for you.

Arrow Child & Family Ministries - Austin

Arrow was founded in 1992 with one office in Austin, Texas. Since then, we’ve expanded across the state with many more offices and programs to serve children and families. Our Texas programs include: Foster Care/Adoptions, Safe Families, Child Sex Trafficking Recovery.

DePelchin Children’s Center - Austin

DePelchin Children’s Center is the leading center in Texas for children’s well-being, with a focus on mental health, foster care and adoption services. For more than 120 years, DePelchin has been turning lives around with comprehensive care for children, including psychiatric services, counseling, programs for at-risk youths, parent education, residential treatment, foster care and adoption. DePelchin is a not-for-profit organization and gratefully receives its support from individuals, foundations and corporations; government grants and fees; and United Way agencies.

Children of All Nations

Children of All Nations (CAN), operated by Great Wall China Adoption, is a division of one of America’s leading international adoption agencies. CAN is dedicated to improving the lives of children by constantly reaching out to nations around the world to place children and give humanitarian aid on a global scale. Drawing on 20 years of experience in placing children, advocating for improved legislation and international relations, and initiating charity programs focused on child welfare, CAN has opened its doors and hearts to a new world challenge. As a division of Great Wall China Adoption, Children of All Nations is built on the solid foundation of a fully Hague accredited 501(c)3 non-profit organization with the highest of service standards. Great Wall China Adoption/Children of All Nations is dedicated to helping children around the world find loving and permanent families of their own through international adoptions and cross cultural exchange programs, in accordance with The Hague Convention on Protection of Children, and US and international laws.

Helping Hand Home for Children

For more than 120 years, Helping Hand Home for Children has provided a place to heal for abused, neglected and abandoned children. Our mission is to provide a nurturing and therapeutic home for children and to restore each child to a healthy family setting. Helping Hand Home provides residential treatment services, therapeutic foster care, adoption services, and an on-site charter school for children who have suffered severe abuse and neglect. We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization located in Austin, Texas licensed by the State of Texas, and governed by the membership of the Helping Hand Society. Children, whose young lives were once filled with fear, pain, and chaos, are learning to trust adults to take care of them and reclaim their childhood. The Home is the oldest continuously operating residential childcare agency in Travis County, and a priceless resource kept strong and viable through community support.

Upbring Adoption

Upbring Adoption and Upbring International Adoption have served children, families and communities since 1881 and have provided adoption guidance, specifically to women experiencing unplanned pregnancies, since 1944. Through the placement of more than 8,000 children into loving, forever homes, Upbring Adoption and Upbring International Adoption are experts in offering long-term support and dependability to their birth parents and adoptive families.

Pathways Youth & Family Services - Austin

Pathways is a Texas-based non-profit social services organization dedicated to creating environments where children and families thrive. We provide a wide array of social services including adoption, foster care, counseling, therapy and other in-home services. All children need great parents. Why? Because parents create the stable, safe and nurturing environments in which children thrive. This is the premise of our adoption program and why we strive to find permanent homes for children. Our adoption staff is committed to ensuring the success of all the children and families we have the privilege to work with and we are committed to excellence before, during and after the adoption process. Our adoptive families will always have Pathways as an advocate and supporting partner. It is our goal to provide each home and child the best opportunity for a successful adoption experience. Pathways Adoptive Families: Provide for their children's safety at all times; Create an environment where children can thrive; Encourage and develop each child’s unique interests and curiosity; Help the children discover their own unique gifts & talents. Pathways also believes that children can succeed in homes of varying religious affiliations, racial make-ups and socio-economic backgrounds. We work with families that share a common interest in healing the past and building strong futures in every child we encounter.

The Settlement Home for Children - Foster & Adoption Program

The Settlement Home locates, screens, trains and verifies potential foster and adoptive parents to become providers with us. (We are only able to serve families within a 1 hour radius of our facility.) Our staff provides continuing education and development for those chosen to serve and is on-call to provide support, respite care and crisis intervention when needed. Monthly reimbursement and medical coverage is provided. Therapy services are also covered by the agency for each foster child in need.

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