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Announcing Winter Educational Series for Prospective Adoptive Parents

Adoptions From The Heart (AFTH) is excited to announce our upcoming 2025 Winter Educational Series. This series of courses, geared towards prospective adoptive parents, will explore several topics relating to the adoption experience. Held via ZOOM, these courses are open to all families in our service area (PA, NY, NJ, CT, DE, VA) and will fulfill [...]

Important Announcement For Clients Sending Gifts Through AFTH Offices

During the holiday season, AFTH receives gifts to forward along to members of the adoption triad. When doing this, we request that adoptive families include funds to cover the postage to repackage and send the gift from our office to their child’s birth family. In order to ensure enough time with the recent delay in mail, [...]

Coming Up: Events From AFTH

Though the year is coming to a close, Adoptions From The Heart has a busy schedule planned. Read below to find out what’s going on and sign up for an event that interests you! AFTH has a lot on our agenda. Events include a Fall Fest, Giving Tuesday, and Heart-to-Heart! National Adoption Month [...]

Adoptions From The Heart Launches Partnership with Local Non-Profit Thrift Shop

Heart & Soul'd Owners, Kristen and Terry Adoptions From The Heart is excited to announce that we have been selected as Heart & Soul 'd's newest mission match. This important partnership allows AFTH to continue collaborations with adoptive parents, as both owners of Heart & Soul’d completed their families through adoption with AFTH. [...]

AFTH Celebrates NY Families at The NY Family Picnic

On August 24th 2024, Adoptions From The Heart held the NY Family Picnic. In fact, since Covid-19 we've put a pause on the event and this was the first NY Family Picnic since 2 years. The event took place at Billy Johnson Playground located in Central Park. About 30 people including staff, consultants, and families [...]

Christmas In July: Gift Card Drive

Christmas is always a special time for a child, when it comes to opening new gifts under the tree. In reality, Christmas can also be a hard financial burden for those who are already struggling. There are many birth parents who are struggling to support themselves and the children they are raising. Every year at [...]

AFTH Launches New Adoption Therapy Center

Adoptions From The Heart has launched it's new therapy center, servicing all members of the adoption triad in Connecticut. Julia Ruggiero, LCSW is an adoption therapist and adoptee working with AFTH to offer clients adoption-competent therapy. In this post, Julia shares how adoption-competent therapy can help members of the adoption triad and the services that [...]

AFTH Celebrates Open Adoption at 34th Annual Family Picnic

Adoptions From The Heart staff and families enjoyed a day at the park this past Sunday to celebrate open adoption. AFTH hosted the 34th annual Family Picnic for families from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. Some staff and family traveled over state lines to attend the event. Overall, more than 225 people attended the days [...]

AFTH New Jersey Office: New Location

We have some exciting news happening this month. The Adoptions From The Heart New Jersey office is moving to NEW LOCATION! If the last office location was convenient to you, do not worry, the new office is less than a mile away from the old location. Our phone number will continue to be the same, [...]

Adoptions From The Heart Family Picnics

We are excited to bring back our summer picnics! The Adoptions From The Heart Summer Picnics are back this year with the opportunity for families to come together in celebration of adoption. We encourage waiting families to attend the family picnics. If you are a placed family and inviting your child's birth family, please send [...]