Combing through adoption agencies in Reno and the adoption services you need can be as overwhelming as your unplanned pregnancy and consideration to place your child for adoption. Adoption Choices of Nevada is a full-service, licensed, nonprofit adoption agency. What exactly is a full-service agency? Why does it matter that we are licensed? And does it matter if the agency is for profit or not for profit?

What is a Full-Service Adoption Agency?

There is so much that goes into adoption. Both as a potential birth parent and a hopeful adoptive parent, understanding the ins and outs of the Reno adoption process can be difficult, especially when you’re attempting to choose an adoption professional. There are a variety of adoption professionals in Reno: adoption agencies, adoption facilitators, adoption law firms, and more. It’s easy to get confused about who does what, and who you should choose to work with for your adoption.

As a full-service agency, Adoption Choices of Nevada can offer adoption counseling and education. Adoption professionals walk you through the entire matching process and help you choose an adoptive family that meets your preferences. We can offer financial support, safe living, transportation, and make sure you have access to prenatal care. Legal services are included with our services; you will be protected and well informed about the adoption process, what you’re signing, and how every step will unfold.

Why a Licensed Reno Adoption Agency?

As in many professions, adoption agencies need to be licensed to provide their services. Agencies are licensed by the state where they operate, usually by a state Department of Health & Human Services. Lots of people who provide adoption services, like facilitators and online matching companies, aren’t licensed. They don’t have to go through a state government’s rigorous vetting process, and we think that puts birth parents and adoptive parents at risk.

As a licensed agency we are required to investigate a potential adoptive family’s home and background in what is called a home study. We want your child to be in a safe, stable, and loving environment and we want you to be confident with the family you are choosing to adopt your child.

Licensed Adoption Agencies

Licensed agencies are also tasked with supervising placement. A licensed agency won’t just handle the legal work, like an adoption attorney, but provides support before, during and after adoption placement. We are also required, by law, to supervise families for a set period of time after the placement of your child. Through our post-adoption services, Adoptions Choices of Nevada in Reno commits to you, your child, and the families – for life.

Why else? The staff at Adoption Choices of Nevada is qualified, licensed, certified (when necessary), and highly competent. We don’t discriminate against you nor the adoptive family on the basis of ethnicity, race, color, national origin or heritage, nor religion. Our staff is also fully committed to the LGBTQ community as well as singles hoping to adopt.

Why a Nonprofit Adoption Agency?

Working with a nonprofit adoption agency in Reno means helping you – the birth mother, finding a home for your child, and placing a child into a loving adoptive family as efficiently and affordably as possible. At a nonprofit adoption agency, no one owns shares of the business, so no one has any inappropriate financial interest in the company. The entire goal is the mission , not the money, so all income the organization generates gets cycled back into the nonprofit’s public benefit mission and activities.

For Adoption Choices of Nevada in Reno, this means bearing all of the expenses for the birth mothers. It means covering the costs of medical expenses, adoption specialists, and counselors, living expenses, and legal services. Every penny earned either goes toward paying a wage to staff or gets reinvested back into the organization, which is why many people prefer nonprofit agencies over for-profit organizations.

Nonprofit Adoption Center

We are often asked if it’s cheaper to work with a nonprofit, and the simple answer is that there isn’t much of a cost difference between the two. Many of the expenses are the same whether the adoption agency is for profit or not-for-profit. While we take great pride in running an adoption agency, we want to make sure it’s done correctly, legally, and with everyone’s best interests at heart. That doesn’t mean that those services come at a discount.

Why Choose Adoption Choices of Nevada in Reno?

If you are pregnant,  a prospective birth mother and you’re wondering, “Can I put a baby up for adoption in Reno?” Yes, you can, and without fear of judgment or “requirements” to do so. Why should I choose adoption for my baby with Adoption Choices?

• Adoption is always an option for you, with us, regardless of your circumstances.
• There are no requirements preventing you from starting your adoption process.
• We can provide a unique level of service and adoption support because we are licensed, nonprofit, and many of our adoption professionals have also been through the adoption process.
• We can provide financial assistance, safe housing, access to legal and medical care.
• No pressure adoption services.
• You can contact us and discuss your adoption pregnancy options confidential at no obligation to choose adoption.
• Adoption with our center is always free to you as the birth parents.
• You can choose Christian families or non-religious adoptive families to adopt your baby.
• Choose adoption whether you have used alcohol or drugs in the past or are using them now and we can help you find treatment.
• Do not have to have a specific type of relationship with your baby’s father to be able to pursue adoption. Whether you are married or single, in a relationship or not, and whether the father of your baby is supportive or unsupportive of your adoption, or is uninvolved or unknown, you may still pursue an adoption plan with our Reno adoption center.