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4021 Windwood Lane |
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Adoption Assistance, Inc.
is a non-profit, licensed Tennessee adoption agency
that is dedicated to assisting families with the
adoption process, including assistance with
immigration, certifications, and guidance on dossier
preparation. Adoption Assistance offers home studies
for international, domestic, and independent
adoptions.
Founded and directed by adoptive parents, Adoption Assistance, Inc. provides services in a professional, efficient, and affordable manner. Julie Erwin is the founder and Executive Director of Adoption Assistance, Inc. She and her husband Bill, an attorney, are the parents of five internationally adopted children; Will, age 9 born in Korea, Kate, age 7, born in Guatemala, twins Nick and Clay, age 5, also born in Guatemala and Lauren age 2 born in Taiwan. |
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| Adoption Journeys |
801 Percy Warner Blvd. Ste. 103 Nashville, TN 37205 615-354-1664 www.jfsnashville.org or Email us |
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| Adoption Journeys is a program of Jewish Family Service of Nashville and Middle Tennessee, Inc., a licensed Tennessee adoption agency that provides services regardless of religious affiliation or sexual orientation. Adoption Journeys offers quality adoption services including home studies for domestic and international adoptions, post placement services, education, and support. | Adoption Promises - Joanne Zambo |
P.O. Box 30204 Clarksville, TN 37040 (731) 415-7503 or Email her. |
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| Adoption Promises has been a licensed child placing agency since 1996, providing domestic and international home studies for families across the state of Tennessee. Some of our families are doing private, independent adoptions while others are working with agencies around the country. We have also been placing older children from other states with Tennessee families who are looking to adopt older children from the child welfare system. In addition to face-to-face visits, a home study consists of completing paperwork, criminal background checks, references, medicals and a questionnaire. Please feel free to call or email your questions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 AGAPE, Inc. |
4555 Trousdale Dr. Nashville, TN 37204 615-781-3000 www.agapenashville.org or email us. |
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| AGAPE is a nonprofit social services agency founded in 1966 by a group of elders and ministers from local Churches of Christ. Its purpose was, and is, to provide Christian-based social services to children and families in crisis, including voluntary foster care placement as an alternative to DCS foster care, pregnancy counseling, mental health services, and adoption services. AGAPE is licensed by the State of Tennessee as a child placing agency. It offers PATH training and home study services to families who wish to consider adoption of special needs children featured on websites such as www.adoptuskids.com and others. AGAPE also provides training, home studies, and post placement supervision for independent adoption of children and for embryo adoption. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 America WorldAdoption Association |
P.O. Box 2665 Brentwood, TN 37024 (866) 417-0752 www.awaa.org or email us. |
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| America World Adoption Association is a Christian-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families adopt children from around the world. We currently have programs in China, Russia, Ukraine, Ethiopia, El Salvador and Kazakhstan. Our organization is run with the adoptive family at heart. America World values the right of every child to have a family and believes adoption is a God ordained way to build a family. America World is also devoted to actively supporting orphan awareness ministries and hopes to spread the spirit of adoption within the Christian community. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Caring Choices of Catholic Charities of Tennessee |
30 White Bridge Rd., Nashville, TN 37205 615-352-3089 715 Franklin, Clarksville, TN 37040 931-645-9969 www.cctenn.org or email us. |
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| Caring Choices of Catholic Charities is a licensed child-placing agency by the State of Tennessee. They provide services to those experiencing an unplanned pregnancy with supportive professional counseling. In addition, they provide services to families wishing to adopt by providing both domestic and international home studies. The agency has regular information meetings for families beginning the adoption process. Caring Choices now provides post adoption counseling to families that have adopted children. ASAP (Adoption Support and Prevention) is a statewide program of which Caring Choices provides services to the Middle Tennessee Area. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| HEAVEN SENT CHILDREN |
307 N. Walnut St. Murfreesboro, TN 37130 (615) 898-0803 www.heavensentchildren.com or email us. |
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| Heaven Sent Children a division of The Center for Family Development, founded in 1991, was established to provide the promotion of healthy adoptive family life through education, resources, counseling, advocacy and support services. We are a private, non-profit, licensed child placing agency in the State of Tennessee that serves all members of the adoption triad. This encompasses adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents. Services provided are international and domestic adoption placements, home studies, post placement services, pre and post adoption support, adoption education classes, adoption play groups, birth parent counseling and services, dossier preparation, and adoption advocacy. We believe that every child should have a loving home prepared to meet their needs emotionally, physically, financially and spiritually. All staff members of Heaven Sent Children are directly touched by adoption either as adoptive parents or adult adoptees. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Lisa L. Collins, Esq. |
One American Center 3100 West End Ave, Suite 1210 Nashville, TN 37203 (615) 269-5540 www.tnadoption.com or email her. |
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| Ms. Collins is an attorney in Nashville and devotes her law practice to adoption law and alternative reproductive technology law. Ms. Collins’ adoption practice includes representing adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoption agencies in their adoption needs, including domestic private and agency adoptions, related person adoptions, international adoptions, interstate adoptions, contested adoptions, termination actions in juvenile court and surrogacy. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and is currently the group's vice president. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Grace Pregnancy Resource Center |
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Welshwood Nashville, Tennessee 37211 P.O. Box 110308 Nashville, Tennessee 37222 (615) 331-8958 email us. |
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| The Grace Pregnancy Resource Center provides support services for women in the areas of pregnancy tests, confidential counseling, education and agency referrals. Grace Pregnancy Resource Center is a beneficiary of the State of Tennessee’s Choose Life specialty license plate. Proceeds from this popular new plate benefit social service providers throughout Tennessee who offer tangible support and assistance to women and families facing difficult or unexpected pregnancies. Buy your plate at your local county clerk office (wherever you renew auto registration tags) and raise awareness of the benefits of choosing life today. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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P.O. Box 111060 | Nashville, Tennessee 37222 (615) 831-6987 www.mercyministries.comor email us. Since 1983, Mercy Ministries’ free-of-charge, voluntary Christian residential program has served a diverse population of young women from various socio-economic backgrounds, ages 13-28, who have been physically and sexually abused, including victims of sex trafficking as well as those who face life-controlling issues such as eating disorders, self-harm, drug and alcohol addictions, depression, and unplanned pregnancy. Mercy Ministries counsels each expectant mother and allows her to make her own choice about parenting or placing her baby for adoption. Mercy Ministries is licensed by the state of Tennessee as a child-placing agency. For more information on Mercy Ministries and its global affiliates, please visit www.MercyMinistries.com.
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522 Russell St. |
Nashville, TN 37206 615-292-3500 www.miriamspromise.org or email us.
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Miriam's Promise is the only nonprofit mainline Protestant agency providing both compassionate pregnancy counseling and adoption services in Middle Tennessee. Pregnancy counseling services focus on decision making, coping with grief and loss, and evaluating options such as parenting or adoption. Miriam's Promise offers domestic, international, and special needs adoptions, and home studies, post placement services, counseling services specializing in adoption related issues and counseling for independent placements. The agency sponsors meetings for adoptive families, waiting parent groups, a birthparent support group, Expecting the Best (offering therapeutic group and individual services to pregnant women incarcerated in area jails) and many other annual events celebrating all members of the adoption triad. We are a member of Joint Council on International Children’s Services and are currently undergoing Hague accreditation. |
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Moms ALIVE |
645 McMurray Drive |
Nashville, TN 37211 615-831-9208 www.momsalive.org or email us.
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Moms ALIVE (Adoptive Life Is Very Exciting) is a network of adoptive parents who meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month in Donelson, TN. Moms ALIVE offers support to Middle-TN adoptive families as well as raising adoption awareness in the local community. Moms ALIVE members are from all aspects of adoption: domestic, closed/open, international, transracial, foster.
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 Nashville Right to Life
4802 Charlotte Ave. |
Nashville, TN 37209-3412 615-298-5433 www.tnrtl.org or email us.
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Nashville Right to Life was organized in September 1992, out of a desire to effect positive social change that affirms the sanctity of human life. Their mission is twofold: providing our community with accurate information and educational resources regarding the life issues of abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia; providing and promoting direct assistance to women and families facing unexpected pregnancies. An affiliate of the National Right to Life Committee in Washington, D.C., Nashville Right to Life focuses its energies on educational, legislative, and benevolent means to achieve legal protection for the unborn. They offer all levels of support to those who find themselves pregnant and frightened or alone, from providing clothing and baby items to more extensive emotional and financial support. |
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Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
436 6th Ave. North |
Nashville, TN 37219 1-877-DCS-KIDS email us.
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The Tennessee Department of Childrens Services was created in 1996 by legislation that combined elements of several state departments that had been servicing childrens needs.Services provided by DCS include child protective services, foster care, adoption, programs for delinquent youth, probation/aftercare, and treatment and rehabilitation programs for identified youth. |
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There are more than 800 children in the guardianship of the State of Tennessee; residing in foster homes, group homes or other residential settings. They are waiting for families to offer them a permanent home. Some biological parents may make the adoption plan for their child; other childrens parental rights have been terminated due to abuse, neglect or the inability to provide adequate care. Some of the children have extra physical, emotion or educational needs. Most children range from early school age to teenage years; some have one or more siblings and there are all ages of African-American and mixed race children waiting of an adoptive family. Many of these children have been waiting for years for someone to want them, show them the love they need and deserve, and give them a sense of belonging. www.tn.state.us/youth/adoption/index.htm
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Robert D. Tuke, Esq. |
Trauger & Tuke |
222 Fourth Avenue North Nashville, TN 37219 615-256-8585 email him.
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