Fertility, Adoption & Reproductive Health
Pathways to parenthood don't always follow a straight line. Whether you are navigating fertility treatments, exploring adoption or surrogacy, managing the financial costs, or looking for emotional support, you don't have to do it alone.
Below, we’ve gathered local, regional, and national resources—including financial grants, support groups, clinic options, and alternative family-building options—to help guide you through every stage of your journey.
Adoption
Adoption can take many forms, including private domestic adoption, foster-care adoption, kinship adoption and international adoption. The process, costs, timelines and legal requirements vary considerably depending on the type of adoption. A good first step is working with a Pennsylvania-licensed adoption agency or appropriate public child-welfare agency and learning about all available pathways.
Haven Adoptions & Family Services
Adoption • Foster Care • Birth-Parent Support
Haven Adoptions & Family Services is a Pennsylvania-licensed adoption and foster-care agency based in Ambler. It provides adoption education and support, domestic infant adoption services, foster-care services and support for expectant parents considering adoption. “Haven Adoptions & Family Services works with all family types. We do not discriminate based on any factors. We do not have any religious affiliations. We work with singles, same sex, cohabitating and married couples, and families who already have adoptive children or biological children.”
Domestic Adoption • Open Adoption • Home Studies • Counseling
Adoptions From The Heart is a nonprofit adoption organization headquartered in Wynnewood that provides domestic infant adoption, home-study services, education and counseling, with an emphasis on open adoption. The organization is also included in Montgomery County's Parent and Infant Resource Guide as an adoption resource.
Foster Care & Foster-to-Adopt
Foster Care • Resource Parenting • Adoption
Montgomery County's Office of Children & Youth recruits and trains resource parents to provide temporary foster care for children who cannot safely remain at home. Some children in foster care may eventually need permanent adoptive families. Resource parents can be single or married, working or stay-at-home parents, and must complete required orientation and training. Resource Parent Brochure
Pennsylvania Statewide Adoption & Permanency Network — SWAN
Foster-Care Adoption • Adoption Support • Post-Adoption Services
The Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) is both a broad-based cooperative effort and a centralized information and facilitation service funded and overseen by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. SWAN includes county children and youth agencies, juvenile court judges, foster and adoptive parents, private adoption agencies, the Pennsylvania Adoption Exchange and many others, all working together on behalf of children who need permanent homes. The SWAN program serves children in the custody of county children and youth agencies. The design of the network is to support the work of county agencies in expediting permanency services.
Resource Centers: Ten district libraries were chosen to receive more than 100 selections of books, magazines, videos, and resources specific to adoption issues. Your library can request a title through the inter-library loan system and provide you with your selection at your local library. You may visit one of the centers listed below. All resources are marked by the SWAN logo and are easily identified on their library shelves. The resource centers closest to our area are:
Bucks County Free Library
150 South Pine Street
Doylestown, PA 18901
Phone: 215-348-0332
Montgomery County/Norristown Public Library
1001 Powell Street
Norristown, PA 19401
Phone: 610-278-5100