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

- Help with obtaining public assistance, locating adoptive family, and finding legal advice - Individual counseling - Information on independent adoption - Support groups - Support while in the hospital at time of birth and in making living arrangements

Advice and search assistance to persons searching for family members (siblings, parents, and children) who have been lost to them through the adoption process.

- Classes designed to prepare a woman emotionally, psychologically and physically for childbirth. - Labor/Delivery Classes - Five 2-hour sessions in 5th to 6th month of pregnancy $45 fee. - Infant Care - Two 2-hour sessions - No charge for class - Breast Feeding & Nutrition Classes - One 2-hour session - No Charge - They do have "scholarships" available for those who want to attend but cannot afford the fee. - First Saturday of every month

Monthly support groups for those who have lost family members through adoption and other interested persons. - Advocacy for humane adoption laws and policies - Monthly national newsletter - Pen pal service to members Monthly support group meetings held at the Saint Louis Park Community Center at 3700 Monterey Drive, Saint Louis Park. Meetings are free and open to anyone in the adoption triad. Held on the first Wednesday of the month. Meetings begin at 7 pm, and run until 9 pm

Provides domestic and international programs such as: - Assisting birth parents to obtain resources such as housing, medical assistance, and more - Counseling on options of parenting or adoption to birth parents - Home studies for adoptive families - Partner Family Program to match families in the adoption process with a family who has completed their adoption license - Placement services - Post placement services for adoptive families - Support groups - Referrals for medical and legal services

- 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

- Free pregnancy tests - Limited financial aid for pregnant women and families with a child under one-year-old - Referrals for educational ultrasounds - Referrals to life-affirming community resources