A Child's Hope - Adoption Services in North Carolina

About A Child's Hope

A Child's Hope offers domestic adoption services in North Carolina. The agency was founded by two experienced and well-respected adoption attorneys who want to make a difference in adoption in North Carolina. The Directors have been instrumental in lobbying for positive changes in North Carolina's adoption laws and the agency is well-regarded throughout the state among adoption professionals.

The agency focuses on matching North Carolina birthmothers with North Carolina adoptive parents. A Child's Hope's mission is to provide personalized adoption services to birthparents and prospective adoptive parents. The agency consists of adoption counselors located throughout the state of North Carolina which enables us to provide personal counseling to birth parents. The Directors founded the agency to give personalized compassionate service to birthmothers.

The domestic adoption program is co-directed by two experienced adoption
attorneys who are board certified specialists in family law. E. Parker Herring is an adoptive mother of two and an experienced adoption attorney. Bobby D. Mills is a member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys (AAAA). The Directors maintain the agency's offices in their law offices located in downtown Raleigh, located at Two Hanover Square, Suite 1860. (Link to Herring, Mills & Kratt site)

The agency is unique in its approach to selecting and screening adoptive parents. Adoptive parents are asked to have at least five in person meetings and interviews with the directors and staff before being approved to have their profiles shown to birthmothers. The process begins with a general adoption consultation and the agency directors each meet with the prospective adoptive parents before they are approved to begin the homestudy process. The agency maintains a relatively small list of waiting parents to minimize the wait that adoptive parents have before placement and to ensure that all adoptive parents are well screened and educated on adoption.

A Child's Hope reaches out to prospective adoptive couples and birth parents through advertising, a toll-free number for birthmothers and extensive networking contacts in the medical, academic and legal communities. The agency has a broad based outreach to minority adoptive parents and maintains a toll-free Spanish speaking hotline.

The agency respects the fact that adoption is a very personal decision. All personal identifying information provided to A Child's Hope is held in the strictest confidence. Since some adoptive parents and birth parents prefer to participate in a more open adoption arrangement, A Child's Hope encourages prospective adoptive couples and birth parents to consider open and semi-open arrangements. The degree of openness is determined by mutual agreement between the prospective adoptive couples and birth parents. The decision to share information is solely the decision of the prospective adoptive couples and birth parents. They share as much or as little as they choose. Some elect to meet once and not again. Others elect to have ongoing relationships over the years.

The agency recognizes that adoption is a legal arrangement that forever
affects the adoptee and the birthparents and the adoptive parents. The agency works hard during the birthmother's pregnancy and thereafter to finalization of the adoption to ensure that all parties are happy with the degree of openness and the forms of future contact that have been agreed upon.

Through A Child's Hope, Caucasian, African American, biracial and children with special needs are placed with caring families.

Birthmothers call toll free:

1-877-890-HOPE (4673)

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