


Adoption Services


Why Adopt?

Adoptive families are the answer to many children’s prayers. Adoptive families provide permanent loving homes for children whose biological parents can’t or won’t care for them.

Why Adelphoi?



  1. Statewide Adoption Network
  2. Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange

Adoption Services

Adelphoi also provides the following adoption services:

  1. Family Profiles are a thorough look at a prospective adoptive family’s background, interactions and resourcefulness. The families are challenged to look at their decision to be an adoptive parent and help them to understand the foster children in Pennsylvania that need adoptive homes.
  2. Family Preparation Training is provided for all families in the eight required SWAN components: Orientation, Who are the Children, Who are the Parents, Parenting, Child Development, Grief and Loss, Attachment, and Resources.
  3. Child Profiles are formulated, with attention to a child’s past history, in order to provide a comprehensive story about the waiting child.
  4. Child Preparation helps to prepare children 0-21 years old for permanency. Staff will help the youth clarify, integrate and actualize their lives in order to assist them with an understanding of their permanency.
  5. Post-Permanency Services are provided as needed to adopted children and adoptive families. A Treatment Plan is developed at the onset of services to clearly outline the goals and people involved in accomplishing these goals.
  6. Placement Services help match the child and family and assist them in progressing with transition in pre-adoptive families.  Finalization Services include training and casework services provided to a potential adoptive family as needed for issues that arise during the six month pre-adoptive placement.
  7. Child Specific Recruitment is an effort to seek and pursue all avenues to find a family for a waiting child, including looking at people in the child’s life and family members.  This service also assists the child with finding and connecting with others to act as a mentor or lifelong resource.

Office Locations

Blair Region
1331 12th Avenue, Suite 305
Altoona, PA 16601
Call: 814-944-3512

Huntingdon Region
10526 Fairgrounds Road, Suite 3
Huntingdon, PA 16652
Call: 814-506-8158

Westmoreland Region
Human Services Center
1011 Old Salem Road, Suite 208
Greensburg, PA 15601
Call: 724-838-9074

Williamsport Region
The Carl E. Stotz Building
1965 Lycoming Creek Road, Suite 208
Williamsport, PA 17701
Call: 570-326-0532

For more information on adoption services, please contact Laura Doran at 724-838-9074, toll-free at 1-800-KID-5928 or laura.doran@adelphoi.org.

Download Adoption and Permanency Brochure

Learn more about becoming a Foster or Adoptive Parent. A Resource Family Recruiter will contact you.

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