News & Announcements | Open Private Adoption Agency

Adoptee Donates Birthday Gift Money to Adoptions From The Heart

In 2004, Mark and Mary-Jean grew their family through The AFTH China Program when they adopted their daughter, Mia. Their family blossomed and the couple then decided to go through the program again, adopting their daughter Celia in 2007. Mia and Celia's parents raised two beautiful and upstanding young ladies, most recently evidenced by Mia's 13th birthday. Leading [...]

AFTH Founder Maxine Chalker Honored with Smart CEO ‘Brava Award’

Adoptions From The Heart is excited to announce that Executive Director, Maxine Chalker, is a winner of the 2016 Smart CEO Magazine’s Brava Award! “The Brava Awards program celebrates high-impact female business leaders in three categories: CEOs, Executive Directors of Nonprofits, and C-suite executives. Brava award winners combine their irrepressible entrepreneurial spirit with a passion for [...]

Adoptions From The Heart Annual Family Picnic 2016 Recap

Just a little over a week ago, on Saturday June 18, Adoptions From The Heart hosted their Annual Family Picnic. It was held at Fort Washington State Park in Flourtown Pennsylvania. Lots of people came out to the picnic to celebrate all the different types of family created through adoption. Many attendees reunited with the [...]

Annual Family Picnic 2016 Updates

For Immediate Release Adoptions From The Heart Annual Family Picnic Bringing together families of adoption and celebrating the brave men, women, and children who have been touched by adoption from all sides at our [...]

First Annual Women’s Health Sharing Expo

The Idea for the Expo is Born A group of women from Muhlenberg College approached the Allentown AFTH team one day a few months back. As Business Administration majors with a Concentration in Healthcare Management, their semester project was to aid an organization to implement new or improved services, events, or whatever the organization needed most. [...]

Adoptions From The Heart Picnic Sponsorship

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 [...]

New Staff at Adoptions From The Heart

Here at Adoptions From The Heart, we have recently welcomed three new staff members to help us in our mission to build beautiful families. We asked the three ladies a little bit about themselves, why they were excited about working with AFTH, and what they didn’t know about adoption before starting here. Meet the new [...]

April 10th – Find Her Footing 5K

If you haven't yet registered for AFTH's upcoming 5K, visit www.afth.org/event. Fun, family event & all proceeds go to the AFTH Birthmother Fund and Birthparent Scholarship Fund.

Holiday Closing

AFTH Offices will be closed for the holiday starting at 1pm on December 24th and will re-open on Monday, January 4th. Not to worry, social workers will still be handling placements and taking calls from hospitals for emergencies during this break.

AFTH Recognizes an Angel in Adoption

Every year the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) hosts the Angels in Adoption Gala in Washington, D.C. and this year one of the attendees is very near and dear to the hearts of those at Adoptions From The Heart. What is the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute? The Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI) [...]