Program is designed to support adoption as a life-long experience. Services include: - Counseling, educational workshops, support groups, homeland tours and public education for those involved in adoption - Domestic intermediary services for birth parents and adopted persons doing search/outreach - Help in obtaining genetic background histories for adopted persons seeking medical information - International intermediary services for adoptive families and adopted persons doing search/outreach - Mentoring Program (M&M) that creates friendships between younger and older internationally adopted persons - Post-adoption therapy for attachment problems

This is a meeting for adults, adolescents and young children living with adoptive families

- Phone and email-based support with advanced training in supporting adoptive, foster, and kinship families - Connects families with adoption/trauma/attachment-competent therapists, appropriate community resources, and educational offerings - Assists eligible families with funding to help with the cost of therapy with HELP Program vetted therapists, Foster Adopt Minnesota educational offerings, and eligible supports

Provides awareness, information, and referrals to connect Minnesota's waiting children to foster and adoptive families. Includes the State Adoption Exchange, an online photo listing of Minnesota children in need of families. Also provides workshops and education on attachment, trauma, transracial adoption, parenting, and other topics relevant to foster, adoptive, and kinship families.

- Foster care services - Adoption study services for all adoptions, training and preparation provided - Minnesota's Waiting Children: Adoption services for children with special needs and children currently living in foster care - Special Independent and Designated adoption services - Complete international adoption services (Colombia, Ecuador & India) - Home Study/Post Placement Services - Post Adoption Support Services

- Completing home studies for families requesting to be placed on State Adoption Register - Completes home studies for court ordered step-parent adoptions - Information and referral to private adoptions agencies

Licensed adoption agency which provides help with legal adoptions. Social service and related assistance: - Adoption support groups - Birth parent counseling and guidance - Bridge care for babies and children in transition - Compliance with Minnesota and Wisconsin laws governing termination of parental rights - Coordination and support services for United States and international adoptions - Legal adoption (finalization) assistance - Post adoption counseling and support - Post placement services and reports - Pre-adoption education and training - Recruitment of families for child adoption