The most significant barrier in adoption is for waiting families to be compelled by seeing the bravery of the expectant mother, who has made this life-giving choice. We guide waiting families to support and champion her success first and foremost. Our adoptive families are assigned a Connected Caseworker who walks them through an extensive assessment process to ensure families are in alignment with our mission to seek the best interest of a child. Our desire is for waiting families to better understand the birth mother’s experience when her child is placed for adoption and value her place in her child’s story.

The next barrier is that adoptive families usually lack the training to provide the best care for an adopted child. While a family waits, we prepare them to be the best family for a child. We equip them with the experience of caring for children with complex histories. This training includes our adoptive families serving as foster or respite families supporting family reunification as they wait for an adoptive child. Further, our Connected Caseworkers continue to provide ongoing services to our adoptive families, along with our Living Well Counselors, to equip our families with the skills needed to successfully welcome a child.

The final barrier is the significant cost of adoption that often prevents the best families from adopting. We eliminate those costs because our heart is for a child to have a loving family. The collective work of our ministries provides the services typically incurred with adoption, thus eliminating those expenses. Adoption comes with great costs- emotionally, spiritually, mentally. Excessive financial costs should not be one of them.