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About OUR AGENCY
OUR MISSION
Connecticut Adoption & Family Services, Inc (Connecticut Adoption & Family Services works to increase the number of successful adoptions within Southeastern Connecticut, especially adoptions of children who have special needs. The mission of Connecticut Adoption & Family Services is to create, strengthen and support families through the permanent placement of children in safe and loving homes.
Connecticut Adoption & Family ServicesHISTORY
The Connecticut Adoption & Family Services was established by a group of individuals concerned with the increasing number of children waiting for parents to adopt them and provide them with a happy and stable home environment. Incorporated in 1989, Connecticut Adoption & Family Servicesis dedicated to the identification of prospective adoptive parents through community awareness and networking with organizations and agencies addressing adoption issues.
AGENCY SERVICES
Connecticut Adoption & Family Services was fully licensed as an adoption agency in 1994. We have been matching families and children successfully now for many years. In the beginning, Connecticut Adoption & Family Services worked primarily with the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to find families for foster children. Connecticut Adoption & Family Services continues to be the only agency in Eastern Connecticut dealing with minority and special needs adoptions. We have, however, expanded our services to provide assistance with all types of adoptions. Our services include the following: Private and DCF home studies
- Connecticut Adoption & Family Services Advocacy Program to give extra support to families throughout the adoption process
- Assessments of foster homes to determine suitability for adoption or long-term foster care
- Birth parent counseling and services to legally free children for private adoption
- Educational classes for families adopting special needs children
- Recruitment of families to adopt specific children
- Post-placement supervision for private and DCF clients
- Adoptive parent and teen adoptee support groups that meets monthly, plus an on-line group
- Assistance with creating Life Books
- Finalization of private and DCF adoptions, including relative and step-children
- Post-finalization counseling
- Foreign and domestic adoptions
ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Connecticut Adoption & Family Services is a member of the North American Council on Adoptable Children and the Child Welfare League and the Connecticut Council on Adoption..
Connecticut Adoption & Family Services has been matching families and children successfully for a number of years. Connecticut Adoption & Family Services is the only agency in Eastern Connecticut with a mission to increase the number of families prepared to adopt minority and special needs children. Connecticut Adoption & Family Services provides information to newcomers to adoption, prepares families for adoption through a family study, and conducts group meetings to explore adoption issues.
Recently, Connecticut Adoption & Family Services has been arranging adoptions of children from China, Guatemala and several other countries. The agency will provide all the neccessary Immigration and Naturalization Services (INS) forms and similar documents. Through our relationship with the China Center of Adoption Affaris in Beijing, Connecticut Adoption & Family Services is able to perform all the procedures to adopt healthy infants from China. Once your home study is received in China, it takes about ten (10) months until you are matched with a child.
We serve families throughout Connecticut.
Non-Discriminatory Policy
Connecticut Adoption & Family Services is a non-sectarian, non-profit, voluntarily supported private agency serving children and families of Connecticut. It is the policy of Connecticut Adoption & Family Services to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age, national origin, or physical or mental handicap, and to promote the full realization of that policy through a positive, continuing program through its services to the community. Connecticut Adoption & Family Services is fully committed to assuring equal opportunity and equal consideration through affirmative action principles in the composition of its board and staff. It actively seeks and recruits to its board and staff interested and qualified persons from all sectors of the community.
Agency News
- Sep 16, 2009 - Families Needed:
We are now looking for Connecticut parents to adopt infants of all races, including African-American, through private domestic adoption. The waiting period has become much shorter over this past year, so domestic adoption has become a more viable option for many. As always, we are also seeking families to adopt CT state foster children through our grant-funded program "Project CT's Child". - May 1, 2009 - Check out the Heart Gallery
If you are considering adopting a child from the state foster care system, please visit the "Heart Gallery", a moving exhibit featuring portraits of waiting children. We can help you adopt these and other foster children. You can view these photos at: www.heartgalleryct.org - Apr 17, 2009 - Visit Us on Cable TV
If you live in Southeastern CT, please check out our public access TV show "Families in the Making". The schedule is listed on the section of this website titled: Visit Us on Cable.
- Child Adoption Resource Association :: Eastern CT
- 2 Union Plaza
- Suite 300
- New London, CT 06320
- 860-444-0553
- director@adoptacarakid.org
