Choosing an Adoption Agency
What is the Difference Between a Home Study Agency and a Placement Provider?
Adoption Options is a licensed home study agency providing written adoption home study reports accepted by placement agencies and adoption attorneys in all 50 states, as well as for international adoption.
Our adoption home study services include:
- Conducting the home study evaluation and preparing the final report (valid for one year).
- Providing support during the adoption waiting period between home study approval and placement.
- Completing annual home study updates and addendums as required.
- Conducting post-placement visits in accordance with state adoption requirements
Our experienced adoption professionals are committed to supporting families throughout every stage of the adoption process—from the initial home study through post-adoption support.
A placement provider is the agency, adoption consultant, or adoption law firm that connects prospective adoptive parents with expectant birth mothers. Families typically choose a placement provider based on their needs, preferences, and adoption goals.
Adoption Options works closely with a variety of placement providers and helps guide families in selecting the provider best suited to their adoption journey.
Responsibilities of a placement provider include:
- Creating adoptive family profiles for expectant mothers to review.
- Matching prospective adoptive parents with expectant birth mothers.
- Ensuring a safe, ethical, and legally compliant adoption process.
- Supporting communication between adoptive and birth families.
- Assisting with finalization of the adoption in coordination with the family’s attorney.
Why Choose Adoption Options for Your Home Study?
Adoption Options provides a comprehensive adoption process designed to help prospective adoptive parents qualify for adoption and feel fully prepared to welcome a child into their family.
Our home studies are accepted by placement agencies, adoption consultants, and attorneys in all 50 states and internationally. Adoption Options is a licensed adoption agency with highly qualified and experienced professionals. The home study document is valid for one year from the approval date and can be updated annually as needed.
We’ll help you feel ready to adopt. Our caring and knowledgeable staff will take the time to work with you to explore your expectations, concerns, and decisions, such as the type of adoption (age, race/background, and health of child) and degree of openness you would like to pursue. Families that have worked with Adoption Options have shared that the personal, thorough, and caring attention received from our staff helped them feel secure as they navigated the adoption process. We make a commitment to each of our families to support you from the first meeting, when we explain how adoption works, to the moment when a family joyfully welcomes their child home.
We believe adoption is a lifelong process. We continue our commitment to our adoptive families through offering programs, resources, and community building after your child is home.