Family Builders by Adoption

This is the worst organization I have ever encountered. My husband and I wasted five years trying to adopt a child through their foster-to-adopt program. In hindsight, we should have gone another route, but we really wanted to help a child in need. Five years later, we gave up and told them to take us off their list of available families. Before doing so, I attended a meeting with a large number of families who have been waiting a long time with no results! I realized that our situation is par for the course for them, and they have no intention of doing anything to improve the situation.

They have a really high turnover of their staff, so we went through 5 or 6 social workers in 5 years. The social worker who wrote our home study took 6 months to complete it! I had to complain before anyone would do anything about it. The social workers are not proactive, and the management here does a poor job of making things happen. You often hear horror stories on the news about kids who are abused and neglected by their parents, and no one did anything about it. Now I know why. Families ready to adopt and offer a loving home are lost in the shuffle, and programs like this do the minimum amount of work. If you plan to work with them, ask them for their current statistics regarding how many children they are placing each month, how many families are waiting, and how long those families have been waiting. My recommendation is that you avoid Family Builders like the plague.

This agency is a disaster. Run the other way! We worked with them for years and experienced nothing but trauma and pain. They have incompetent staff, they do not have the backs of their clients, and they are poorly organized and underfunded. They have very poor leadership. This is a terrible agency and I strongly encourage you to find any other option.

To be honest, my partner and I were very excited to be a part of Family Builders after raving reviews from friends, but our dream was slowly crushed after dealing with the outdated and prejudice system that has been put in place at their agency. Aside from their paper systems being extremely outdated, after going through the orientation, breaking our lease costing my partner and I thousands of dollars, and waiting for over a month, we were told we don't qualify just for being in a relationship for under 2yrs. Alyssa met with us in the orientation and for an in-home interview. During the in-home interview we asked if us being in a relationship for a short amount of time would be an issue and she explained to us that it shouldn't be, "...but might require an extra interview if anything." After waiting to hear about the status of our application, we were told their policy does not allow anyone in a relationship for under 2yrs to continue in their system. To gain further understand, we setup a phone call, which ended up being almost an hour long discussing this policy, which by the end we found out it's not actually a policy, but they put this in place to protect their company from having any chance of providing a loving home for a child in need.

Long story short, they say their organization is to put the kids 1st, but it seems as though they only have interest in having a selective system put in place to keep loving families from giving kids an opportunity to have a place to call home.

We are forever grateful. The staff is amazing. They are professional, compassionate, diligent and attentive. We had a great experience with the agency. It was recommended to us by a friend and we are grateful we were able to work with them. If you are considering them, they are a great organization to begin or continue your family with.

Great people, have a very nice experience when we adopted in 2017. Will definitely recommend to family and friends, and we will use their services again when we decide to expand the family.