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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
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.
Theodora Ann Drescher, MSW, LCSW
Provider of Homestudy Pre-Placement and Post – Placement Reports
Adoption Love and Service
www.adoptionloveandservice.com
WA License LW00004297
Tacoma, WA
(253) 324-1185
Thea is a 45 year old adoptive mother to a 4 year old little girl adopted from China. Her passion for adoption work was peaked as a result of her own adoption journey. Since 2005 Thea has found joy and delight in helping children and families find each other. She has nearly 25 years of social work experience with high risk youth which has been a solid foundation in her success with adoptive families.
Thea has a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Boston College, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her concentration in both academic programs was on clinical social work with children and families. She has been a child and family therapist in community agencies and in Special Education Programs in several school districts. She finished her work in Special Education as a Behavior Consultant to school administrators and teachers. In addition, Thea has been teaching Psychology, Sociology, and Human Services at the university level since 2000. Most recently she has been asked to teach at the University of Washington, Tacoma in the School of Social Work Program. It is important to her to influence the next generation of social workers to the sensitivity of the varying nature of families.
Thea’s experience with adoptive families began as a provider of the two adoption assessment reports, namely the homestudy and post-placement. These evaluative tools allow her to make a judgment about a family’s readiness to adopt and about the progress of a child’s placement into a home. Her approach is to support and guide the family through their “paper chase” of adoption documents. Equally important to documentation is the family story. She approaches all family stories as exceptional and is honored to be invited into this important chapter in their lives.
Seta Ghazarian, M.A., LICSW
LW60078451
206-228-8535
Email: seta.ghaz@gmail.com
I am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and I provide home study services,
post placement services, and other services related to the adoption process such as
pre-adoptive counseling. I have worked in the fields of child welfare and adoption since
1999. I complete home studies for both domestic and international adoptions, including
Hague compliant home studies. I have completed home studies for single-parent and
step-parent adoptions as well. I work with clients of all ages, races, sexual
orientations, and various other demographics.
I have a passion for working with children and families, and feel that every child has
the right to be in a loving family and loving home. I believe in working together with
clients to make their adoption experience as comfortable and smooth as possible,
answering any questions they may have along the way. Adoption is such a wonderful
experience, and I feel honored to be a part of the process of bringing children and
families together.
My approach to the home study process is to make the adoptive parents feel as
comfortable as possible, and to educate the adoptive parents as much as possible. This
helps me to really understand and get to know the family, and helps the family to
understand adoption.
I operate from a strengths perspective. Any weaknesses that are uncovered during the
home study process, whenever possible, I work with the family to help turn that weakness
into a strength.
Claire Greenhill, MS, LMHC
#LH00010457www.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 Serviceswww.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.
Lutheran Community Services Northwest
433 Minor Avenue N. Seattle, WA 98109
206-694-5731
email: lcolacurcio@lcsnw.org
Independent Home Study Services
Lutheran Community Services offers independent home study services for private domestic and step-parent adoption. We also offer home study and adoption services for same-sex couples; please call us for consultation if you are interested in making sure your partner becomes your child’s second legal parent.
Denise Sterchi, LICSW
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.
- same sex and opposite sex couples
- single people adopting
- step parents adopting
Lori Whittaker, LICSW
2302 NE 149th Street
Vancouver, WA 98686
360-576-6597
As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (L.C.S.W.) in both Washington and Oregon, I have
been completing adoption home studies for over 14 years. Working as both an Adoption
Specialist for the Division of Children and Family Services, and as a private Adoption
Consultant, I have completed over 1,000 pre and post placement adoption home studies.
This has included domestic adoptions, as well as International adoptions, from countries
such as China, Russia, Ukraine, Guatemala, Thailand, Vietnam, Haiti, Ethiopia,
Kazakhstan, The Marshall Islands and The Philippines, to name some. I am also
experienced in completing Hague home studies, for Hague-accredited countries.
I am organized, professional, competent, efficient and pride myself in producing a very
thorough and professional adoption home study, in a timely manner. I can work with a
short deadline, if I receive all of the necessary paperwork from you quickly. I begin by
sending out a packet, which includes all of the paperwork required to complete a home
study. Next, we set up a meeting date and time, where I come to your home for the
interview and walk-through of your home. After our meeting, I spend several hours
“perfecting” your home study by combining all of the written paperwork and our
interview. After I have proof-read your study several times, I prepare the correct
number of copies required for your adoption, and then mail the original (notarized)
copies to your agency/attorney, with a copy also mailed to you.
I am available to consult with you regarding adoption-related questions, so please do
not hesitate to call me at 360.576.6597 (office) or 503.998.2218 (cell).
As a member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), I have always abided
by their strict Code of Ethics. I have been a member of NASW for 14 years, and have
never had a complaint filed against me. I treat each individual with kindness and
respect, I honor diversity and I practice with integrity in all of my work.
I have worked with children and families in the Social Service field for 30 years (in
different positions). In my private therapy practice, I see individuals, couples and
families, many of whom come with parenting and adoption-related issues. This includes
issues related to attachment and bonding (Reactive Attachment Disorder), family systems,
failed adoptive placements and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, to name some.
I would be happy to provide references of pleased adoption home study clients, if asked.