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Adoption News: March 2024

Download PDF Articles Include: Considering a Non-Infant Adoption Placement National Social Work Month Talking to Your Child about Adoption & Keeping Open Adoption Promises Benefit of Adoptive Families Working with a Doula Spring Ed Series - registration open Adoption & Beyond Podcast Revamp & AFTHtv Season 15 New AFTH Support Groups Added: Single Adoptive Parents & [...]

Important AFTH Summer Picnic Announcement

We have had to make the difficult decision to cancel this year’s agency-wide summer picnic held in Fort Washington, PA. Due to the park’s COVID restrictions, we need to forgo our yearly tradition for one more year. However, we understand the significance of the picnic for those who use that time to have open adoption [...]

Statement of Solidarity

June 8, 2020 Adoptions From The Heart stands with the world in the fight for equality and fair treatment for men and women of color. What happened to George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and all the other countless men and women who have lost their lives to violence, indifference and police brutality, is not [...]

Important COVID-19 Announcement…

            March 13, 2020 Dear Prospective Adoptive Parents, As a child welfare agency, we must adhere to the government suggestions and warnings and take abundant caution regarding the rise of COVID-19. Please rest assured that your health and well-being are our top priority. It’s important that we take their recommended [...]

Adoptions From The Heart Receives 2020 Best of Lancaster Award

Adoptions From the Heart has been selected for the 2020 Best of Lancaster Award in the Adoption Services category. Each year, the Lancaster Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through [...]

Adoptions From The Heart Holiday Closing…

All AFTH Offices will be closed for the holiday starting Friday, December 21st at 2pm and will re-open on Wednesday, January 2nd. During this time, social workers will still be available for placements and calls from expecting parents.

Meet Chalker, Founder and Executive Director of AFTH

As an adoptee, she understands the experiences of the adoption process from a first-hand perspective. Her career as a social worker guided her from working at a public civil service agency to starting an agency of her own first named "The Adoption Agency" in 1985. She wanted her agency to enable birth parents to be [...]