When a prospective family enrolls with ASA they are assigned a personal adoption coach. Typically, the adoptive family is allowed to select the coach with whom they would like to work, but if unsure, the company’s owner will assist the adoptive family with the best choice of a coach. Your coach is responsible for guiding you through the adoption process from the point you enter our service plan. If you are completely new to adoption, your coach begins with home study agency referrals, adoption education and profile development assistance. If you come to us after you are already working with an agency, home study provider, or attorney, your coach picks up with your adoption plan at whatever point you enter our services. We stay with your family from that unique beginning point through placement with your adoption provider and finalization. Our service package includes adoption home study referral, adoption education & parenting education, personal adoption guidance & support, ancillary adoption services (i.e., legal, financial, child development, birth parent communication), profile design assistance, networking/adoption provider referrals, and post adoption support. We have documented that we spend 60-100 hours per client family with our adoption consulting services.

No … we view that as adoption facilitation and that is not part of our service package. Instead, we reach out to the 30+ adoption providers with whom we have built personal and professional relationships. They let us know about expectant birth parent(s) and we then submit the adoptive family’s profile to that provider if they wish to be considered.

We work with all types of families from single persons, married couples (traditional and same sex), domestic partnerships and common law couples. We accept all faiths and races. Our guiding principle is your family is able to successfully complete a home study and provide a stable home with unconditional love for a child/children. We do request you have a brief phone interview with the owner of our organization to assess if your priorities match our service abilities. We do request if you are a couple that you have been together at least 1 year (partnership or marriage) before applying to our program.

We ask everyone to sign a Fee Service Agreement that binds us to our client families for 1 year from signing on with our services. If the family becomes dissatisfied, they may disengage any time during that year, but no refund is offered. At the conclusion of the 1-year mark, if the family is not matched or placed and wishes to continue, there is a $1700 renewal fee that is good for an additional year.

Currently we cannot work with families who are residents of NJ or NY.

We offer many different education opportunities to our families! They have access to monthly webinars, handpicked educational articles/resources that are pertinent to each step of the adoption journey, specific education and support on transracial adoption (if that is something that fits your situation), and access to New Parents Academy’s course “Expecting 101:You’re Adopting!”. Our relationship with New Parents Academy also allows for a weeks’ worth of 1 on 1 text messaging support from a certified post-partum doula, certified lactation counselor, and mom of 3 (including identical twins). We truly believe that education and support is what makes one’s adoption successful!

No, we do not have a requirement of closed, semi-open or open. We have a very diverse view of adoption communication. We believe that the adoption communication between an adoptive family and a birth family should be mutually beneficial and often that cannot be defined pre-match. We do educate our adoptive families on the various ways both families communicate with one another pre-birth and post-placement. All of our coaches come with a variety of their own experiences in closed, semi-open and open adoption communication.