Our team in Glastonbury, Connecticut recently celebrated a huge milestone with their office's 10 year anniversary. We recently interviewed Susan Myers, District Supervisor and Out of Area Program Coordinator from our Connecticut office. In the interview Susan looks back on the office's growth and achievements within the past 10 years. Here are our 10 questions in [...]
Adoptions From The Heart's Second Annual Find Her Footing Zumbathon® was nothing short of a success. Over 60 people came to the Greater York Center for Dance Education to partake in a fun Zumba® workout session. Zumba® is an exercise fitness program that is a mix of cardio and Latin dance moves. Participants not only broke [...]
Brittany Brooks' Story Brittany Brooks is the Office Manager & Marketing Assistant in Adoptions From The Heart’s Wynnewood, PA Office. This is Brittany’s first position at an adoption agency, however, she is no stranger to the open adoption process. Five years ago Brittany went through the same process as many of the birth mothers [...]
Throughout the years Adoptions From The Heart has been a proud supporter of the LGBTQ community. Sexual orientation does not hinder a parent when it comes to loving and providing for a child. Newsweek recently published an article citing the National Center for Health Statistics research on the overall effects of children raised by homosexual parents. The research [...]
Marci and Vorrice’s adoption journey began in 2015 when they were looking to grow their family. They met while living in Washington D.C. where Vorrice was stationed at the Pentagon and Marci was working at the US Agency for International Development. They got married later in life and when they began trying to have children, [...]
An essential step in the adoption process is completing a home study. A home study is an evaluation and overview of prospective adoptive parents’ personal life and background – which will allow the agency to determine if the adoptive parents are able to provide a stable and safe environment for the child. An adoption professional [...]
Since Maxine Chalker started Adoptions from The Heart, then called ‘The Adoption Agency,’ in 1985, the mission and goals of the organization have been focused on open adoption and the importance of supporting everyone in the adoption triad through such kinds of adoptions. As an agency committed to these values, our whole staff knows and [...]
Adoptions From The Heart is proud to work with a handful of expert attorneys like Debbie Spivack who care about the welfare of children, expecting parents, and adoptive parents the same as we do! While adoptive parents are able to choose services when it comes to attorneys, Adoptions From The Heart always suggests a few of [...]
Meet the eight generous organizations participating in sponsorship of this annual event and learn how their donations will help serve Adoptions From The Heart’s mission. Adoptions From The Heart (AFTH), as part of its lifelong commitment to building beautiful families, is gearing up for its annual picnic, one of the biggest events of the year, aimed [...]
Last week, National Infertility Awareness Week was in full swing at Adoptions From The Heart. Not every family who comes through our doors has dealt with infertility, but many have, and we’ve helped them find the beautiful families they have always wanted. To help raise awareness, we took to social media to see what families [...]
