Adoption Information and Resources
Every woman facing an unplanned pregnancy has her own questions and concerns about adoption. In the articles and links below, you will find answers to many adoption questions. Adoption Choices of Colorado is committed to providing you the information and resources that you need during this time. If any of your adoption questions aren’t answered in these articles, our Adoption Specialists are here to help. Call us at 303-670-4673(HOPE) or text us at 720-371-1099 anytime, for free, and with no obligation!
Latest Adoption News
Unplanned Pregnancy
Are You Facing an Unplanned Pregnancy?
How to have a Healthy Pregnancy
Eating Healthy during Pregnancy
Exercising during Pregnancy:
Sleep during Pregnancy:
Considering Adoption
Important Info
Adoption & COVID-19:
Adoption Choices is Still Open
Adoption in Colorado:
Packing for Your Interstate Adoption
The Court Process of Adoption Finalization
Recent Laws Passed:
Single Parent Adoption
The Adoption Process
For Adoptive Parents:
Understanding the Adoption Process for Adoptive Families
Preparing Your Home when Adopting
Stay Positive Throughout the Adoption Process
Reasons You Shouldn’t Give Up while Waiting to Adopt
Adoptive Parents’ Hospital Plan
For Birth Parents:
Understanding the Adoption Process for Birth Families
How to Create an Adoption Plan
Best Practices for Your Adoption Plan
A Birth Mother’s Hospital Plan
For Both:
Financial Assistance
Adoption Stories
Let's Talk Adoption
Talking to Your Child:
Talking about Adoption with Your Son or Daughter
Talking to Friends / Family:
Teaching Your Friends and Family about Adoption
How to Support a Friend Considering Adoption
Handling Criticism with Your Choice of Adoption
Adoption at its Core:
The Top 5 Questions Adoptees Ask
Holidays & Adoption
Gotcha Day
Mother’s Day
Honoring Your Child’s Birth Mother on Mother’s Day
Father’s Day
Bonus Resources
How to Connect with Your Child during the Holidays
The Matching Process
Adoption Reunion Story
Christy has been with Adoption Choices of Colorado 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 of Colorado 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.
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.
Liv obtained her undergraduate degree in pre law from American University in Washington, DC,(1994) and completed an MA in Counseling at Adams University (2001). Qualifying her as the only specialist in the Four Corners region, Liv obtained a Master Clinician endorsement in Prenatal and Postpartum Mood Disorders from the Postpartum Stress Center. Liv is also a volunteer for Postpartum Support International. Liv’s unique work supports families with anxiety and depression after the birth of a child, fertility issues, loss of a child, NICU trauma and adoption/foster care. Liv has also worked with Pediatric Partners of the Southwest as a member of the Integrated Behavioral Health Team. In addition to seeing clients in her private practice, since 2004, Liv has provided a variety of adoption services in the Four Corners area in Southwest Colorado. This includes: adoption home studies, post placement services, foster parent counseling, relinquishment counseling and birth parent support.
Rachel Robertson is a published journalist, book editor, certified Publishing Specialist, and aspiring novelist. She graduated from Central Washington University (CWU) in March 2011, having found her writing voice within the Creative Nonfiction genre and grew to work as a freelance book editor for small presses all across the United States.
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
Amber Klein started her career in the marketing and advertising world and quickly learned all about various types of communication, how to talk to people and how to effectively market any business. But she always knew that she wanted more. In 2016, she started to feel as though she wanted to give back in some way in her career and marketing wasn’t fulfilling that need for her. After a well-timed stint at jury duty (which she found fascinating and was actually disappointed to not be placed on the jury), she knew that she’d found the industry she wanted to be in and embarked in an intensive paralegal certificate program. Upon completion of the program, she started working at Adoption Choices of Colorado as office manager and paralegal. At Adoption Choices, she does all of the filing for adoptive parents and birth parents, preparing documents and supporting the staff with a variety of tasks. She’s so thrilled to have found a place where she can combine use her education and love of law to help better the world one family at a time. In her free time, Amber enjoys spending time with her family and friends, attending concerts, reading, experiencing her native Colorado backyard and running agility with her dog, Kirra.