Domestic adoption is a great option to choose if you want to start your family or help a child in need. Our Domestic Adoption Program offers Michigan born infants from birth parents who have decided adoption is their best alternative. Children available for adoption may be of any racial or cultural background. Adoptive families are encouraged to explore their feelings, desires, and options regarding the adoption of a child with a different racial or cultural background during the home study process.

We facilitate adoptions for qualified adoptive couples and single men and women in Michigan as well as throughout the United States and Canada. It is important to emphasize that the birth parents almost always choose the adoptive family. Therefore, their wishes regarding age, location, number of children in the family, ethnic background, and degree of openness in the adoption process, will determine who they select.

The Domestic Adoption Placement Program offers a complete and innovative range of services to birth parents. Meeting birth mothers needs for good nutrition, medical care and well being also fulfills the needs of the unborn children. We are committed to supplementing birth parents expenses by using community resources and other social service agencies whenever possible. In most cases this will reduce expenses for adopting families and makes adoption a more affordable possibility.

We also offer a full range of services for adoptive families that include consultations, counseling and support, orientation seminars, home study services, post-placement supervision, development of family profiles, referrals of birth parents, adoption processing from A to Z.

Our policy of affordable domestic adoption is based on equal agency fees regardless of the ethnicity of the child involved. The only variable would be the amount of service and financial assistance required by the birth mother situation. Every attempt would be made to meet the needs of the birth mothers, while including community resources and referrals to supplement the expenditures of the families. To reiterate, our goal is to make adoption affordable for as many families as possible.

Openness would be encouraged in the form of pictures, letters and videos; personal contact between birth parents and adopted children would be discouraged. The openness agreement, as well as the adoption plan, would be individualized to meet the needs and wishes of both the birth and adoptive parents...the counseling and mediation required would be part of the services of agency. Appropriate non-identifying disclosure of necessary information would be given to both birth and adoptive parents.