The Service Tree lists all services in "branched" groups, starting with the very general and moving to the very specific. Click on the name of any group name to see the sub-groups available within it. Click on a service code to see its details and the providers who offer that service.
Adoption Services
Adoption Counseling and Support
Programs that provide guidance and support for people who have adopted a child or are involved in the process of adopting a child.
Adoption Information Release Forms
Programs that maintain statements submitted by birth parents and adult birth siblings of their consent or denial of consent to the release of identifying information to a child who was placed for adoption or the child's direct descendents. Statements may be made available to adoption agencies, probate courts and court-appointed confidential intermediaries who are responding to requests from adult adoptees or their direct descendents for information about their birth families.
Programs that specialize in handling adoptions for specific populations (e.g., children with special needs, foreign-born infants/children, or adoptions in which the race/cultural background of the child and the adopting parents are different); and/or adoptions in which there are arrangements for exchange of information and contact between birth families and adoptive families prior to the adoption and/or after the adoption has been finalized (in contrast to traditional or closed adoptions in which no information is shared and adoption information is confidential).