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Responsible for providing 24-hour care for youth ordered into our custody, services to family members which promote the child's return to the birth family, and custody studies, home family assessments, and ensuring parental rights are legally terminated if the child is adopted.

Placement of children who are legally free for adoption in approved permanent homes, completion of required reports to the court in the adoptive process, monitoring the adoptive placement.

Adoption services are provided when a foster child is adopted. The department continues to assist the adoptive family to facilitate the child's adjustment into the new family.

Offers free pro-life options counseling for parents experiencing unplanned pregnancy, assistance with scheduling prenatal appointments, provision of transportation to medical appointments, provision of on-going counseling services.

Provides court-ordered and agency placements of children in custody. Offers court-ordered home studies for a fee based on income.

Arranges for adoption placements for children. Call intake for information on releasing a child for adoption. Fee applies to persons wishing to adopt for the preparation of adoption reports/investigation.

Provides court-ordered and agency placements of children in custody. Offers court-ordered home studies for a fee based on income. For more information, please call: Fluvanna County Social Services: (540)842-8221 Statewide Toll-free number: (800)362-3678 or (800)DO-ADOPT FUNDING SOURCES: Federal, State and County Governments

Provides court-ordered and agency placements of children in custody. Offers court-ordered home studies for a fee based on income. For more information, please call: Rockbridge Area Social Services: (540)463-7143 Statewide Toll-free number: (800)362-3678 or (800)DO-ADOPT

Develop adoptive placements to provide permanent homes for children in foster care whose parents' parental rights have been terminated. Recruit and train prospective foster and adoptive parents. Provide casework and supportive services to the children and families to ensure permanency. Provide adoption services in parental placement adoptions and step-parent adoptions, including home studies, visits and reports to the court.

Birthright is a free, confidential emergency pregnancy service offering pregnancy assistance and alternatives to abortion. Birthright is staffed entirely by volunteers who offer women their friendship and guidance throughout the course of pregnancy. Birthright of Norfolk provides free pregnancy tests; material assistance such as maternity and baby clothes, diapers and wipes; medical referrals; information on local resources for housing, food, education, jobs, professional counseling.

Provides court-ordered and agency placements of children in custody. Offers court-ordered home studies for a fee based on income. For more information regarding the Statewide Adoption program, please call Toll-free: (800)362-3678 or (800)DO-ADOPT.

Provides adoptive placements for children whose parental rights have been terminated. Placements are made by social services after home studies are complete and the best interests of the child are met.

Provides placement services, supervision for children who have been separated from their parents due to abuse or neglect, and adoption counseling. Works with birth families to address problem issues. Recruits foster and adoptive families.

The purpose of adoption is to place children who have been permanently and legally separated from their birth parents with a new family. It is a social and legal process which gives new parent(s) the same rights and obligations as biological parents.

Shineforth provides adoption through treatment foster care. Shinefort recognizes that adoption is a lifelong process, creating a relationship between a child and adoptive parents. Shineforth pays special attention to the complex circumstances that give rise to the need for adoption and to the stresses and adjustments that ensue for all parties in this process.

The purpose of adoption is to place children who have been permanently and legally separated from their birth parents with a new family. It is a social and legal process which gives new parent(s) the same rights and obligations as biological parents.

Offered in support of families interested in adopting children by compiling adoption home studies, as well as providing information regarding children who become free for adoption. There are several types of adoptions: agency initiated adoptions, adoptions that are parental placements, and step-parent adoptions. A subsidy may be provided for eligible children until age 18 or 21, depending on the status of the child (if they meet eligibility criteria set forth by policy). The Child Welfare Unit performs searches for adopted children who are searching for their natural parents.

Places children who have been permanently and legally separated from their birth parents with a new family.

C2Adopt provide placement, support, and education services to waiting children, potential and existing adoptive families, expecting families and birth parents. C2Adopt supports ALL permanency families to include foster placements and kinship placements.

Adoption services include assisting with the placement of a child into a new permanent home when return home is not possible, and providing counseling and support to the child through the adoption process.

Adoption is a service for children who cannot be cared for by their birth parents and who need and can benefit from new and permanent family ties established through a legal process. Adoption services are provided to children who need permanent families, birth parents who are unable to parent their children and adoptive parents who want to provide a home for a child not born to them.

Efforts are made to bring adoptable children together with approved families.

Provide court ordered home studies on families who meet income guidelines as well as home investigations and referrals for special needs children listed in the Adoption Resources Exchange of Virginia.

Services to help children, who have been permanently and legally separated from their birth parents, become permanent members of a new family.

Provides court-ordered and agency placements of children in custody. Offers court-ordered home studies for a fee based on income. For more information, please call: Winchester Social Services: (540)662-3807 Virginia Statewide Social Services: (800)362-3678 or (800)DO-ADOPT