An Overview of Adopting

Adoption Network of Colorado provides adoption services to clients wishing to adopt through our Traditional Domestic Program, or for families seeking to adopt through our Designated Program.  A "designated" or 'Identified' adoption is defined as an adoptive placement in which adoptive parent(s) have been designated by the birth parent(s) prior to either party's involvement with an adoption agency. A designated adoption may also take the form of a client completing a Family Assessment before independently seeking birth parents. The Traditional Domestic Program requires the agency to complete the Family Assessment, facilitate the placement process, and provide counseling to the birth parents in order to complete the relinquishment process.

For an interstate adoption, The Agency may contract to perform either the Family Assessment/Post Placement/Finalization services, or the Birth Parent Counseling/Relinquishment services, in cooperation with an agency out of state. If the child is born in Colorado, The Agency initiates the Interstate Compact for the Placement of a Child (ICPC), retaining guardianship of the child until the finalization of the adoption.

Adoptive Parents:

Criteria

Process & Procedures

Services Offered

Fees