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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Meet Kristy Hartley-Galbraith, AFTH's Marketing and Communications Director. Her transracial adoption journey helped her broaden her horizons on the perspectives of the adoption triad. What motivated you and your husband to pursue open adoption? At the time during which we began our adoption journey, I had over 10 years of experience in the field of [...]
Meet Joan Smith, our Pittsburgh Adoption Social Worker! Her experience with international adoption not only helped build her own family, but also provided great insight for prospective adoptive parents going through a similar process. Learn about how her personal connection opened doors for her to be a part of her clients’ family building journey. Tell [...]
Meet Brittany Brooks, our Wynnewood Office Manager and Marketing Associate! As a birthmother, Brittany has seen the adoption process from an oft-misinterpreted perspective. She wants to break the social stigma of birth mothers through her work here at the agency by empowering fellow expecting and birth parents. As a birthmother, were you looking for an [...]
Meet Libby Ethridge, our Central PA Office Manager! Her family’s transparency about she and her sibling’s international adoption drives her to spread awareness about the adoption process through the eyes of the adoptee. Read on to find out more about her adoption story and how she helps clients, family, and friends! Can you tell us [...]
Meet Jess Coughlin, our Cherry Hill, NJ Adoption Counselor. Her story is a truly unique journey that opened her mind and her heart to adoption. She grew up next door to a family with adopted children, three of whom were her best friends. The family’s connection with one another inspired her work at AFTH and [...]
Meet Stephanie Cappriotti, our Central PA Out-Of-Area Program Coordinator and Adoption Counselor. Adoption is something very near and dear to her heart and continues to be a constant in her work and family. Her cousin’s adoption through AFTH inspired her to work in the adoption field. What about your cousin’s adoption story inspired you the [...]
Meet Katie Houser, AFTH's Pittsburgh Office Manager! Adoption serves as the foundation of her family and helped her build connections with fellow adopted parents as well as adoptees. Keep reading to learn more about the unique origins of her family How has adoption shaped your family dynamic and the life of your children? I have [...]
