Private Adoption Agency in Colorado
What is Private Adoption?
A private adoption is an adoption in which a pregnant woman (or couple) choose to make an adoption plan for their baby. They voluntarily place their baby for adoption, often with an adoptive family that they choose. This is different from foster care and international adoption, where many children are placed due to difficult circumstances that are out of the birth family’s control.
Private adoptions are most always domestic, infant adoptions and are therefore the most common way for a family to adopt a baby in the United States today.
While some private adoptions are independent, most birth parents work with a licensed adoption agency to find an adoptive family for their baby. This ensures the baby is placed in a safe and loving home. Private adoption agencies also provide the birth mother with adoption services, like financial support, medical care, and counseling throughout her pregnancy and even post placement.
A family hoping to adopt a baby in the United States will typically go through a private adoption agency as well. This ensures that the adoption is legal and safe, and that the birth mother has been supported every step of the way.
If you need adoption help now, please call or text us at 303-670-4673 (HOPE) or visit us at Adoption Choices of Colorado.
What is a Private Adoption Agency?
Our private Colorado adoption agency provides full adoption services to birth parents and adoptive families. We help women (and couples) make thoughtful adoption plans and to find the best possible family for their baby.
What are the Benefits of Working with a Private Adoption Agency?
When a pregnant woman chooses to work with a private adoption agency, she gets to make many choices throughout the process. In fact, she is in total control of the Colorado adoption process. Once choosing adoption, she can choose the types of adoption she want, the adoptive family, a birth plan, and so many choices through her adoption journey.
All adoptive families that work with Adoption Choices of Colorado go through a home study. They are carefully screened, with interviews and background checks, and even parental training before they are approved to adopt. For an birth mother, this can provide great peace of mind in knowing her child will be raised in a safe and stable home.
Being licensed, we can also provide many services to birth mothers making an adoption plan. These include education about adoption, financial assistance, and counseling before, during, and after the adoption plan.
Private adoption agencies support all members of the adoption triad – birth parents, adoptive parents, and the child. By working with a private adoption agency, you can expect personal guidance and support at every stage of the adoption journey.
If you are facing an unplanned pregnancy and want to learn more about your adoption options, contact Adoption Choices of Colorado by email, phone, or text: Email Us, Text us: 720-371-1099, Call us: 303-670-4673 (HOPE). If you are hoping to adopt, please contact us here.
Stephanie joined the Adoption Choices family in 2014 as the Child Placement Supervisor. Her love for adoption began in first grade when she made friends with twins adopted from Vietnam. Her heart grew strong over the years for adopted children and ultimately led her to graduate school where she continued her focus to her dream of working in the adoption field. Stephanie earned a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Denver in 2001. Over the past 15 years, Stephanie has worked as a pregnancy counselor and as an adoptive parent counselor for foster care, international adoption and domestic adoption, writing hundreds of home studies for families, and helping build their forever families. Stephanie is married and has three boys ages 12, 9, and 5. Together with her family she enjoys riding bike, playing games, watching her three sons compete in their various sporting and musical activities and go on vacations.
Christy Ikeler, is our Executive Director and Birth Parent Director. Christy has been with Adoption Choices Team for 18 years, since opening the doors in 2002! Christy has a true passion for what she does and her true love is working with and helping each birth parent. Whether she is up all night on the phone talking with them, taking them to doctors appointments, out for their favorite treat, providing counseling or at the hospital during labor and delivery, Christy is very involved every step of the way. She has a contagious laugh and a spunky personality that our birth moms all can bond with and relate to. As an adoptive parent herself, adoption holds a very special place in her heart and she can relate on every level with both birth parents and adoptive parents. In her free time Christy loves spending time with her daughter, gardening, baking and taking vacations with her family. Christy is an excellent leader for our team at Adoption Choices and is truly one of a kind!! As Executive Director, Christy spends time with the staff, birth parents and adoptive families in order to ensure that the agency is running smoothly. She has placed a huge emphasis on community outreach and programs for birth parents. Christy loves the opportunity to lead the agency into a brighter future.
Ms. Mackenzie has built a successful counseling career over the past 20 years, supporting mothers and families, people of all ages and genders, students, community professionals and fellow clinicians. Liv values a diverse professional focus, including the entrepreneurial life of a sole proprietor, the evaluative process of certifying foster/adoptive homes, the insightful and mindful one-on-one one work with enthusiastic clients, and serving as an advocate for underserved populations. Liv is a Licensed Professional Counselor and holds a BA in Pre-Law and Economics from American University, an MA in Counseling from Adams University and a certificate in Human Resource Management from Villanova University. Away from work you will find Liv spending time in nature, biking to the farmer’s market and adventuring with her family.
Catherine A. Madsen, joined the Adoption Choices family as legal counsel in 2013. Catherine is responsible for providing legal guidance to the Agency, training and updating staff on developments in adoption law and legislation, and program development. Catherine
Virginia Frank is an adoption attorney accredited since 1991 with the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Ms. Frank is a leader in the field of private adoption and has completed over 4,000 adoptions in her career. Ms. Frank has a law degree from Oklahoma City University and a BA in both Political Science and Communications from the University of Oklahoma.
Cassidie has been with Adoption Choices since 2015, she has her bachelors in Interdisciplinary Affairs with concentrations in both Sociology and Business Management. Cassidie has additional training in Victim Advocacy, foster care and has been working in women’s services for over 10 years. Cassidie has always had a heart for adoption and it was her career dream to work in adoption. She started off doing volunteer work for advocacy programs, adoption organizations and worked in High Risk Maternal Fetal Medicine through the University of Colorado Hospital and Children’s Hospital of Colorado. Cassidie is also blessed to have personally experienced an adoption of her own in 2012, completing her family of five! Cassidie loves what she does as a case worker from initial phone calls, meetings, doctor appointments, interaction with the adoptive families to delivery and counseling. Cassidie has a passion for those in need and strives to help make a difference in the lives of the people she meets. She is a firm believer in being kind, compassionate and open minded in all situations. “Unless you’ve walked in their shoes, there’s no place for judgment. A kind word or compliment can go a long way!” The bittersweet moments in adoption reminds Cassidie each and every time, why she loves what she does!