Adoption Assistance Agency

The agency provides pregnancy counseling, birthing support, housing options, and access to a caseworker around the clock. It also guides prospective adoptive families through adoption planning and preparation. Services include a free consultation, application review, and a pre-placement home study, with home visits and interviews for New Mexico families. Birthparents are interviewed, screened, and counseled, and adoptive families may be presented to birthparents through a photo album. After a birthparent selects a family, the agency provides social work services throughout the adoption process, emotional support, and authorized placement services for agency placements. It prepares adoption documentation for an attorney chosen by the family and provides follow-up visits and support after placement, along with a post-placement report and consent for finalization. Legal services are separate.