Chattanooga Adoption Agencies

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Bethany Christian Services

In 1982, Bethany Christian Services began offering pregnancy testing, counseling, and eventually adoption services out of the basement of a local church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. We served all of eastern Tennessee until offices were started in Knoxville and Nashville. Today, the Greater Chattanooga office serves a 60-mile radius in Tennessee and northern Georgia. To date, we have brought more 700 children together with their forever family through our domestic and international adoption services and we are committed to serving all children and expectant and adoptive parents with professionalism and integrity.

Greater Chattanooga Christian Services

GCCS’s goal is to unite families and to assist them in having healthy relationships. Over the years the agency has done this work in a variety of ways. One key way is by assisting parents to adopt children and children to adopt parents. We also perform Home Study for Adoption. GCCS is a licensed Child Placement Agency in both Tennessee and Georgia. We are excited for every opportunity to assist in the process of uniting families.

Holston United Methodist Home for Children, Inc. - Chattanooga

Since 1895, Holston Home has played an important role in helping children find forever families and helping families grow through our adoption services. We provide services to families who are looking to add to their families in a variety of ways. We assist families throughout East Tennessee with foster care/adoption, domestic adoption and international adoption. Our adoption specialists will be glad to help your family explore the different paths and help you find the best one for your situation. All of Holston Home’s adoption programs are accredited by the Council on Accreditation and our international programs are Hague Accredited. Our goal as an adoption provider is to match the child or children with the family that will best meet their needs.

Lifeline Children’s Services: Tennessee

Lifeline Children’s Services is a full-service adoption and orphan care ministry, serving families and children in the United States and around the globe. We began as a domestic adoption ministry, caring for women walking through unplanned and often crisis pregnancies. By God’s grace, Lifeline has since grown in ways we never could have imagined.

Youth Villages - Chattanooga Office

Through our Intensive In-Home Services, we provide help to struggling families, hoping to strengthen them and allow children to stay with their birth parents. Sometimes, this is not possible, but those children still need a “forever home.” In Tennessee, the Youth Villages adoption program partners with the state Department of Children's Services to find permanent homes for the children in our care who have adoption as a goal. In the other states we serve, our counselors work with state officials to facilitate adoption for children who cannot return to their birth families. Right now, dozens of Youth Villages kids in Tennessee are looking for adoption, ranging in age from five to 18. Profiles are available for many of the children eligible for adoption. The children in our care who are available for adoption face special challenges. Most of them have suffered some emotional trauma in their childhood; many have suffered from abuse or neglect. Many of the children available for adoption have been in our foster care program for many years. Now, their birth parents' rights have been severed, and they are ready to move from foster to forever homes. They have received counseling and good care from us. To reach their full potential, all they need now is the kind of security that only a real family can provide. Youth Villages offers an array of training, support and assistance to potential adoptive parents. Many adoptive parents also are eligible for continuing adoption subsidies from the state. We began our adoption program in 1999 as a natural extension of our treatment foster care program. For some people, fostering a child with special needs is the first step toward adoption. Many of our foster parents adopt the children in their homes when they become eligible for adoption. Other parents come to us with adoption as their immediate goal.

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