Abrazo Adoption Associates believe in open adoption and they educate their clients about why open…read moreadoption is so important for children. The staff members truly believe in building families who can come together for the sake of a child and they provide numerous resources for education and support. We found Abrazo to be unique through offerings like their online forum - a community of both adoptive and birth families - who come together to lend advice, provide support, and encourage one another through both good times and hard times in adoption. Another unique thing is their annual summer camp where staff, adoptive, and birth families all come together and hang out for a weekend. Abrazo is highly ethical and encourages expectant parent(s) to make their own best choices. They don't ever want a mother to make a choice to place her child unless she comes to that decision on her own. They teach their adoptive clients to respect the expectant/birth parents right from the start and provide ongoing support for birth parents through weekly group sessions in their office to a private online Facebook group specifically for birth parents. They are a small agency and they focus a majority of their energy on working with birth parents (as they should). Adoptive parents should expect to lean on the forum, their fellow orientation group members, or a cost-free mentor that's provided by Abrazo for the majority of emotional support or for the answering of day-to-day questions. The resources that adoptive parents discover during their waiting phase will be the resources they lean on as adoptive parents for many years to come. I can be reached out to directly for specific questions at adoptingcouple@gmail.com.

We worked with Abrazo twice in the last 15 years to adopt our children. I am still so very thankful…read moreto have found this agency. I truly do not believe we would be the parents we are without the education they gave us. From the start of going to orientation weekend, they set themselves apart. You have a built in support group with the other couples there. They offer a camp each summer as well that has been such a blessing to our family. We all have bonds that have enriched our lives. Abrazo taught us what open adoption is, and I'm forever grateful for them and the journey they helped us through.

They assisted me with spaying and nurturing ferrel kittens for a small fee. They also assisted me…read morewith making a heartbreaking decision to surrender them to be adopted. Within a few weeks, the kittens had been adopted. Their mom was adopted from this agency as well. The staff work well with our needs. I was completely satisfied with all the results.

Adopted Sir Charles over 1 year ago. He's been the best 9 year old pup ever. Loves to cuddleread more

We had the pleasure of adopting our son through Texas Adoption Center and couldn't be happier about…read morethe experience! The staff here truly cares about the birth parents, child and adoptive parents. Their communication is outstanding and they are super responsive. Our story was unique I am sure but the were placed with a child in our arms just over a week of going live with them!! Incredible! The best part, is how the handle the matching process. They keep a small amount of families on their list. Then they let you decide on each case that you are a fit for if you'd like to be presented. We loved feeling like we had a hand in it. We can't thank TAC enough for helping us with the greatest gift in the world - bringing our son home!

Everyone at Texas Adoption Center has been an absolute joy to work with. We adopted our daughter…read morethrough TAC and were absolutely stunned at how professional, empathetic, and helpful everyone at the agency was. We also felt like we could reach out to any of the folks we were working with during the whole process and get pointed in the right direction. We'd like to call out a few folks who were absolutely excellent resources during our time with TAC. Kaitlin was our contact for intake and background checks. She helped us get through the Texas state Central Background Check Unit process and was super responsive when the state's identity agency was giving us the runaround. Thank you Kaitlin. Pamela was our case coordinator. She was responsible for so much: meeting together with us and birth mom for the first time, helping us with any questions we had about the adoption case, getting hotels scheduled for the birth family to be near us when we visited, collecting and sharing information that our daughter will one day want to know about her birth family, putting together our ICPC paperwork, coming to us to get our placement paperwork signed, and so much more. She was also the main advocate for our birth mom with the hospital and the hospital's social workers -- I'm sure there's a whole separate laundry list of work she did with birth mom and dad that we didn't even see. It's impossible to list all of the things Pamela did for both us and the birth family -- she really went above and beyond, both in terms of what she handled and how much time she spent on our case. As an example, it was normal for her to be texting with us late at night to get questions answered or paperwork finished. We're so grateful for everything Pamela did -- thank you! We wholeheartedly recommend TAC as a place to adopt from. Their website is highly informational for both to-be-moms who are looking to make an adoption plan and for adoptive parents who are looking to adopt. Their staff, as I hope is readily apparent, is really good at what they do. And it's clear to me that the folks who work here have the best interest of both birth moms and adoptive parents at the core of everything they do.

We adopted two little boys through Silver Spoon and had a great experience with them. Lisa was very…read morehelpful. Our little boys are 3 and almost 5, if we would do it again it would be through Silver Spoon, they are the cheapest we have found. I highly recommend them to anyone, I love working directly with the birth mothers and building a relationship with them as we have with our boys birth mothers, they are so sweet. We can only imagine the pain they went through to make this tough choice, and love and support them through it. MM of PA

The people at Silver Spoon Adoptions are professional, compassionate and knowledgable. They only…read morework with pregnant women, but i referred a friend to them and we feklt that she was very well taken care of. They helped make a negative situation into a very positive one .Highly recommend.