Adoption: Government Agencies

"The Administration for Children & Families (ACF) is a division of the Department of Health & Human Services. ACF promotes the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals and communities."

"The Children's Bureau supports programs, research, and monitoring to help eliminate barriers to adoption and find permanent families for children. CB provides funding to states and tribes to help them support families who adopt from foster care. We provide additional funds to states that achieve a high number of adoptions of children from foster care."

"A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, we provide access to print and electronic publications, websites, databases, and online learning tools for improving child welfare practice, including resources that can be shared with families."

"The Office of Children's Issues (CI), part of the Bureau of Consular Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, plays an active role in the intercountry adoption process. In our work, we are dedicated to assisting parents as they seek to provide a home to orphans abroad.
We carry out the Department of State's responsibilities as the U.S. Central Authority for the Hague Adoption Convention. The Office of Children's Issues is responsible for the day-to-day oversight and implementation of the Hague Adoption Convention in the United States."

"Learn about local rules and resources and find agencies in your area"

"American Adoptions is a national adoption agency that works with both prospective birth parents and adoptive families from across the country."

"Public adoption agencies get their funding from local, state and federal sources. They typically have a foster care and an adoption component. Children enter the system either by a parent relinquishing the child to the local child welfare system or a local court terminating a parent’s rights due to abuse or neglect. Children may be from newborn to 17 years of age..."