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IAC informs, supports, and guides birth and adoptive parents through the process of creating healthy new families through open adoption.

IAC’s professional staff provides support and counseling for birthparents, works closely with adoptive parents throughout the adoption process, and provides ongoing post-placement support and consultation for birthparents and adoptive families.

IAC is focused on transforming lives through open adoption by serving the best interests of birthmothers, children, and adoptive families.

More about IAC

1. IAC has over 28 years of experience with over 4,000 successful adoptions

1. IAC is committed to the adoption triad: birthparents, children, and adoptive parents

1. All birthparent services are free and include: non-directive pregnancy options counseling, comprehensive lifetime counseling support, needs assessment, and referral to appropriate services

1. Professional and licensed with over 20 social workers with Masters of Social Work (MSW) degrees or higher

1. IAC's Clinical Director is a nationally regarded expert in the field. She has written numerous groundbreaking books including Dear Birthmother and Children of Open Adoption and has advocated extensively for open adoption. She provides IAC with clinical oversight and IAC's staff with clinical supervision

1. IAC's staff takes calls from 7am until 10pm, 365 days a year

1. IAC is licensed in California (all 58 counties), Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina and Texas and has facilitated adoptions in 36 additional states

1. IAC has regional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Raleigh and Houston

1. IAC is one of the only adoption agencies in the country that has never had any exclusionary policies for adoptive parents, including age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, religion, ethnic background, color, or race