Home Studies & Post-Placement Reports

The following home study/pre-placement report providers and post-placement report providers are listed in alphabetical order. These professionals provide domestic and/or international report services. Please call three providers to choose the best option for you and your needs. Most of the following professionals travel often to provide services.

Karen M. Buckley, LICSW, ACSW, OSW-C

License # LW00005091

Raindrop Counseling & Adoption Home Studies

kayinwa@comcast.net

2608 Pacific Ave., SE, Suite C Olympia, WA 98501

360-556-0201

I provide stress-free international and domestic home studies to all families. This includes Pre and Post Placement reports. It is my goal to make this is a stress-free process for you. I work with all families regardless of race, color, creed, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or age. I would enjoy meeting you and being a part of your adoption process.

I am able and willing to travel to provide services. I have traveled as far south as Southern California and as far north as the Canadian border!

Children's Home Society of Washington

www.childrenshomesociety.org

International Adoption

This program provides information and education, home study and post placement reports for international adoptions. CHSW works with many international adoption agencies and provides pre adoption education that meets the Hague Convention requirements.
Contact Barbara Guerrero at barbarag@chs-wa.org or phone at 1 800-456-3339.

Foster-to-Adopt Program

Through this innovative program children are placed in homes with the intention that if they become legally free (the legal connection with their birth family has been ended), they will be adopted into their foster family. Program staff are diligent in their efforts to match families and children, thus avoiding multiple foster placements, which are damaging to a child. The purpose of the program is to find permanent homes for children soon after they come into foster care, when their casework plan indicates that they may be unable to return home. CHSW provides training and support throughout this process.
Email Judy Wood at judyw@chs-wa.org or Sherry Rosing sherryr@chs-wa.org, or phone (253) 472-3355 for more information about CHSW's foster care services.

Claire Greenhill, MS, LMHC

#LH00010457
www.SeattleHomeStudies.com
Claire@SeattleHomeStudies.com

206-658-5374
600 N. 36th Street,
Seattle, WA, 98103    

Claire provides qualified, professional home study services (pre and post placement reports) to individuals and families planning to adopt domestically , who reside in Washington state.  These services are appropriate for those planning private adoptions, attorney assisted adoptions, independent adoptions or “family” adoptions.  You may be interested in these services if you are looking for a less expensive, less complicated, personally tailored way to complete this important step in your adoption process.  

Claire's office is located in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood, just north of the Fremont Bridge.

Dru Martin Groves, M.A.

A Center for Adoption Services

www.drugroves.org

Dru@drugroves.org

206-780-1972

Dru Martin Groves is the Executive Director of A Center for Adoption Services. Through A Center for Adoption Services, Dru provides home study services for international and domestic adoptions. Post placement reports, birth parent counseling/education and adoptive parent education are also provided.

A Center for Adoption Services possesses a child placing license in the State of Washington. With this license, Dru can provide home study and post placement services for those choosing to adopt internationally on an independent bases.

Dru has worked extensively with birth mothers making decisions about their unplanned pregnancies and has provided support for birth mothers who have placed children in the past. She works with couples hoping to adopt and with children who were adopted. Dru has training and experience in grief counseling and in adoption reunions.

Denise Sterchi, LICSW

843 NE 66^th St.
Seattle, WA 98115

 206-276-6063

Denise provides Home Study/Pre-Placement Reports and Post Placement Reports.  She has nearly 10 of experience providing these services for those adopting domestically; independently or from DSHS.

 Denise services include work with:

• same sex and opposite sex couples
• single people adopting
• step parents adopting

 Denise can also provide counseling services for those resolving fertility issues, birth mother counseling and women experiencing post adoption depression or anxiety.

Ivy Zolle, MA, LMHC

LH00007230

Adoption Link Consulting Services
adoptionlink@comcast.net

1919 70^th Ave., W., Suite D2
University Place, WA 98466

253-255-5597
Visit Ivy's website at www.adoptioncounseling.org

Ivy specializes in home study/pre-placement reports, post-placement reports, counseling on fertility issues, adoption exploration, grief/loss issues and birth parent consultations.  She has a unique gift with adoption mediation and “match” mediation.

Ivy also specializes in options counseling and adoption planning with birth parents.

Ivy brings a strong sense of ethics, commitment and clinical understanding to the field of adoption.  Her philosophy is that adoption is a wonderful option and should be treated as such.  She also recognizes the loss and grief normally associated with this journey.