Adoption Services
Lutheran Family Services of Virginia's Adoption Program provides permanent, stable, and caring homes for children born
domestically. Adoption home studies are offered for prospective parents adopting from other countries.
Lutheran Family Services of Virginia will work with all qualified Virginia residents regardless of gender, disability,
racial, ethnic, or religious background. Services are available to married couples, single, divorced, or widowed persons.
Services Provided by Lutheran Family Services of Virginia
Home Studies are conducted with prospective adoptive parents by a social worker. Home studies are required by the
Commonwealth of Virginia and ensure a stable environment for the adopted child.
Parental Placement Adoption Services provide the simultaneous visit between birth and adoptive parents, supervision,
and court reports at the time of finalization.
Post-Placement Supervision is provided in accordance with state of Virginia requirements, , typically lasting six months.
Reports are sent to the child-placing agency or to the courts to finalize the adoption.
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Parent Education Workshops are conducted with all prospective adoptive parents. The workshops are designed to cover
issues and concerns for families and adopted children.
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Lutheran Family Services of Virginia is licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia as a child placing agency.
Waiting Child Adoption Services
Lutheran Family Services offers adoption services to families interested in adopting older children in need of a permanent
home. These children are usually older (typically, not infants) males of African-American heritage, sibling groups that
include older children, disabled children, children from families with backgrounds of mental illness and substance abuse
and children with developmental delays. These are children in foster care that have been waiting for an adoption placement
and are legally free for adoption.
These services are offered through a grant received from the Virginia Department of Social Services and are provided at
no cost to the parents who adopt waiting children in Virginia. This program is available is all agency offices and works
in combination with the treatment foster care program - joint training and dual certification of parents as foster/adoptive families.
For more information, contact:
Amy Dyer, Adoption Services Manager
2000 West Club Lane, Suite B
Richmond, VA 23226
(804) 288-0122
(800) 359-3834
email: adyer@lfsva.org
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