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LDS Family Services is a private, non-profit organization established in 1919. With 57 offices throughout the United States it is the world's largest private adoption agency. There are also seven international offices in Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
Key services provided by LDS Family Services include:
Birth parent services
- Free counseling to birth mothers, birth fathers and grandparents.
- Birth parent support groups.
- Temporary housing for birth mothers who wish to live away from home
during pregnancy.
- Medical and legal arrangements based on individual needs.
- Continued schooling arrangements.
- Adoption placement services tailored to the birth parent's needs, which
may include the selection of adoptive parents, meetings and exchanges of
information.
- Birth parents may call 1-800-537-2229 for a referral to the office nearest them.
Adoption Services
- An in-depth qualification process prior to couples adopting.
- Adoption education classes and support group.
- A wide range of adoption plans.
- Membership in Families Supporting Adoption (FSA), an agency-sponsored
organization which currently has 57. The guiding purpose of FSA is to
advocate a positive view of adoption and provide support to birth parents,
adoptive families and others through outreach, legislation, media and
education. In keeping with this guiding purpose, FSA honored President
Thomas S. Monson, first counselor in the First Presidency, last July with
the organization's Hall of Fame Award for his support of and contributions
to adoption.
For more information about LDS Family Services' counseling and adoption services, and national adoption month, see the news headlines section of www.ldschurch.org.
