Adoption is a lifelong journey—one filled with emotions, challenges, and questions. If you’ve ever wished for a space where you can connect with individuals on a similar journey and others [...]

Adoption counseling plays a vital role in providing support, guidance, and impartial information to expectant parents. It is designed to empower them by helping them understand their rights and available [...]

Children face a variety of life stressors, and adoption can bring even more challenges and complexity to a child’s life. As a parent, it’s important to be attuned to your [...]

Research shows that 95 percent of adoptions are “open adoptions” involving some communication between the adoptee and birth family. However, that wasn’t always the case nor is it always possible. [...]

Adoption is a lifelong journey with complex emotional, psychological, and social dynamics that require specialized understanding and support. Adoption competent therapy matters to all impacted by adoption, including adoptees, birth [...]

When a family is expanded through adoption, two families (the child’s birth family and adoptive family) are joined together for a lifetime creating their own extended family network. Navigating post [...]

Choosing to place a child for adoption in order to best provide for them is definitely one of the hardest decisions that a parent will ever make. Many parents consider [...]

ACI was founded 35 years ago on the belief that best practice in adoption is to nurture and advocate for genuine, open communication. This goes for all involved. Most importantly, [...]

For decades, Adoption Center of Illinois has been dedicated to ethical, compassionate, and innovative adoption practices. Foundational to ACI’s principles, founder Richard Pearlman and Executive Director Emeritus, Jane Turner, examined [...]

Who am I? Where do I come from? What is my racial / ethnic background? Who are my ancestors? These are the questions most people ask as part of exploring [...]