Memphis Adoption Agencies

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Agape Child & Family Services, Inc. - Adoption

Agape’s Memphis adoption program serves families through the pre and post-adoptive process. From consultation to counseling, our services to adoptive families and children advance our mission to support and provide healthy families to children and families in the Mid-South. If you have questions about the adoptive process, Agape can help you acquire the information and knowledge you need to help you make informed decisions. Whether you are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy and considering adoption as an option for your child, or are considering opening your home to an adoptive child, Agape is here for you. Regardless of where you are in consideration of the adoptive process, please feel free to contact us.

Bethany Christian Services

Since 1944, Bethany Christian Services has been reaching out to children who are alone or vulnerable. As a worldwide and community leader in adoption and family services, we know that a child's best chance to thrive is as part of a safe, loving, forever family.

Life Choices of Memphis, Inc

In 1986, Life Choices began its ministry to women facing the prospect of an unplanned pregnancy. Our first call was from a young woman who wasn't even sure how she found the number. She simply said, "I think I'm pregnant. Can you help me?". That first phone call ignited our passion at Life Choices. We exist to help those women who are asking the same question our first client asked so long ago. "Can you help me?" Our priority at Life Choices is to truthfully answer women's questions with the respect and dignity we feel all women deserve - regardless of their ultimate decision. In 1987, Life Choices became a state-licensed child-placing agency and has seen more than 225 women complete adoption plans for their infants. We hold positions of leadership in the West Tennessee Council of Adoption Agencies and the Adoption Center of the Mid-South. One of our adoption clients recently wrote, "Yes, sometimes when I think about my daughter, I'm sad. But then I think of how happy she is and how faithful the family is in sending pictures and letters, and I know I made the right decision for both of us." In 2007, Life Choices converted into a medical clinic, including diagnostic pregnancy testing and limited obstetrical ultrasound under the supervision of a licensed medical doctor and on-site registered nursing staff.For women who choose to make a life-affirming decision in their pregnancy, we offer counseling to help her make a positive plan for both she and her baby. If she chooses to end the pregnancy and they experience issues that they feel are related to that decision, we offer post abortion counseling by our trained staff of counselors. Life Choices is committed to provide a non-judgmental and Christ-like environment designed to educate and empower women to make life-affirming decisions. The vision of Life Choices is to strategically change the procurement of abortion by providing intervention, education, and support services for women and families in crisis and by raising awareness in the community as to the obstacles we face and the opportunities available in addressing pro-life issues. Life Choices believes adoption to be a godly and biblically-rooted concept. We believe that adoption is a life-affirming option for a woman experiencing an unintended pregnancy, as well as a desirable way for a couple to build their family. Because we realize that adoption is not the right decision for all of our clients, we do not encourage adoption over parenting. Instead, we trust that God will reveal his best plan to the biological parents to whom the child has been entrusted. Life Choices believes that birth families choosing adoption are to be commended for their maturity and sacrificial love. In order to provide the compassionate care and support to all members of the child’s birth family, Life Choices has trained counselors available for the entire family unit who may also experience the loss upon releasing a child for adoption. Life Choices believes that adopting a child should be financially accessible and that potential adoptive families should be treated with respect and compassion. At Life Choices, families will find that our professional staff is available to help lower the frustration levels that are often associated with the adoption process. We will strive to educate families about adoption and keep them as informed as possible throughout the process. Life Choices believes adoption to be a permanent, covenant relationship between both the adoptive family and the child, as well as the adoptive family and the birth family. Along with Life Choices, the birth family and adoptive family work together, always keeping the child's best interests in the forefront when making the arrangements for the placement and afterwards. Life Choices is committed to foster an atmosphere of mutual cooperation, respect, and love throughout the adoption process.

Mid-South Adoptions, Inc.

Youth Villages - Shelby Oaks 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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