How We Are Unique
Open Adoption & Family Services (OA&FS) is a nonprofit, private adoption agency specializing in planning domestic infant adoptions. Families seeking to adopt will find our services are unique because:
- We are the experts on open adoption in the Northwest, with 26 years of experience. We’ve planned over 1,200 successful open adoptions.
- Each year, we complete more domestic infant adoptions than any other private agency in Oregon and Washington. On average, we facilitate between 40-60 placements per year.
- We are a licensed nonprofit agency that is not affiliated with any governmental or religious organizations.
- We welcome prospective adoptive parents regardless of age, race, religion, sexual orientation or marital status. Our pool of waiting families includes heterosexual couples, same-sex couples, and single parents.
- Each year hundreds of pregnant women, couples or their loved ones, contact OA&FS as a result of our extensive marketing and outreach programs. We provide them with free, unlimited options counseling.
- Pregnant women/couples typically choose adoptive parents during their third trimester of pregnancy, after receiving extensive counseling at OA&FS.
- After placement, you and the birthparents will have ongoing access to counseling at no additional cost as you navigate your open adoption relationship.
- At OA&FS, openness is not just about ongoing contact, but rather the development of an enjoyable and genuine relationship. You will receive the tools necessary to build a healthy open adoption.
- You will be a welcomed member of our active open adoption community. Services and events include an adoptive parent mentor program, waiting family groups, adoptive parent gatherings, client picnics and holiday parties, and open adoption workshops.
- As part of our child-centered adoption program, we are continually exploring new ways to meet the ongoing needs of the children we place.