Services

Is your family created or touched by adoption? Is your family united by foster care? Are you interested in international or domestic adoption? Are you a relative raising children when birth parents cannot?

Adoption Information & Referral Service, ARIS, provides information to families as well as referrals to trained, experienced, and compassionate adoption and family resource professionals. Every professional referred by ARIS is screened to ensure the best connection possible for families.

ARIS is a free service dedicated to those seeking information and referrals around adoption, foster care, and kinship care. Our service is designed to assist:

• Adoptive and foster parents
• Grandparents and other relative caregivers
• Teachers and other school professionals
• Counselors
• Case managers
• Family advocates
• All members of the adoption triad
• Those in the business of helping the families succeed

At Adoption Referral & Information Service, clients can find information and referrals regarding many issues. These include:

• Pre-adoption steps and placement
  
• Parenting and child development within a unique family
  
• Open adoption
  
• Opening adoptions once closed
  
• Attachment issues
  
• Fetal alcohol/Fetal alcohol effects(ARND)
  
• Search and reunion
  
• Grief and loss
  
• Multicultural issues
  

Your family may be referred to numerous resources, including:

• Therapists/counselors
• Adoption agencies
• Support groups
• Social workers
• Home study providers
• Attorneys
• Medical professionals
• Confidential intermediaries
• Trainings/workshops