State Agencies to Help an Adopting Family

Each state has child adoption specialists to help you understand the adoption process in that state. 

The state Adoption Specialist to contact can be identified by clicking on State Child Adoption Contacts.  You may also find the state child welfare agency, state photo listings and adoption exchanges as well as state Department of Health and Department of Education to be helpful.

Additionally, each state has a list of licensed and approved child adoption agencies.  Since each person's adoption situation is different, one agency may be able to serve your needs better than another agency can.

While Adoption Services is able to help adopting persons and birth parents in all 50 states, you may also want to research another child adoption agency that can help you. With that in mind, for your convenience, we have listed many of the licensed child adoption agencies in the United States, state-by-state, on the link Domestic Adoption Agencies.