Tyler Adoption Agencies

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A World For Children - Tyler

Nestled in the beautiful Piney Woods area in Tyler, Texas, is our Tyler Office. Families in this part of Texas enjoy taking their children camping, fishing, and enjoying a rural lifestyle. Our East Texas families are known for their longevity with A World For Children, having several families that have worked with us ten to fifteen years. The Tyler office is a fast growing office with new foster families joining our mission! Our staff are dedicated to supporting the families and children they serve, going above and beyond the call of duty to help parents and children be successful. A World For Children has also answered the call to develop an underserved area of Texarkana, which is in great need of therapeutic foster homes. We affectionately call our East Texas staff the Tyler-Kana Group! The families in East Texas are skilled foster parents who serve children with a variety of needs. We specialize in helping teens in the foster care system have hope and a future with our L.A.U.N.C.H! Program and have families who are known for their ability to care for children with primary medical needs. Several of our families have been recognized by the Texas Foster Family Association as being Foster Parents of the Year. Come see what all the fuss is about in our Tyler Office!

Arrow Child & Family Ministries - Tyler

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.

Azleway - Adoption Services

Adoption services are now available for individuals and couples willing to provide a loving home to a child. There are thousands of children looking for a forever home in Texas, and Azleway can help match you with a child to complete your family. We will help guide prospective families through the adoption process, including guidance with the required home study and paperwork and working with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS). At Azleway, parents can be verified in to adopt in two ways, matched adoptions or foster to adopt. In matched adoptions, parents are approved only to adopt and Azleway will work with the family to match them with a child in the care of TDFPS. In foster to adopt, parents are certified as foster/adopt homes and can foster a child prior to adopting them. Also, adopting a child through Azleway and TDFPS is far less expensive than private adoptions. Potential adoption parents must be at least 25 years of age, with a high school diploma or GED, and pass a criminal and child abuse background check. In addition, they must complete pre-service training with a focus on children who have been abused or neglected, become certified in first aid and CPR, and complete a comprehensive home study.

Christian Homes & Family Services - East Texas

Vision: A Christian Home for Every Child. Mission: Changing lives and building Christian families through maternity, foster care and adoption services. Christian Homes & Family Services encourages young women to choose life for their babies and, when best, also adoption by loving couples anxious to be parents. The ministry also works with Christian families who love and care for children who have been abused or abandoned. Since 1962 Christian Homes & Family Services has placed more than 1850 precious babies and children into loving adoptive homes, provided maternity care for more than 2500 women, and cared for more than 1570 foster children.

Loving Alternative

Loving Alternative adoption ministry provides individual counseling and compassionate friendship for any mother that chooses adoption or is considering it. It is located in Tyler, separate from the Maternity Home, to ensure that residents don’t feel pressured to place their child for adoption. Loving Alternative’s ministry to the birth parent does not end at placement. It continues through the time when she grieves the separation of her child. The birth mother receives pictures, letters and updates from the adoptive family (exchanged through the agency) which help provide her with the assurance of knowing that her baby is healthy, happy and much loved. Adoption is a loving and self-sacrificial choice that a birthmother, birthfather and/or birth families make to ensure that their child has a stable and secure two-parent family to grow up in.

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.

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