Haven Adoptions, Inc.
Haven Adoptions, Inc was founded to create a new standard in the field of adoption. As a fully licensed Pennsylvania agency, Haven Adoptions works with women looking for an adoption plan and adoptive families hoping to adopt. Our goal is to provide hope and support to everyone we work with, both biological parents and adoptive clients. Haven Adoptions puts the needs of their biological parents and adoptive parents first.
Haven has a shared passion for adoption and a solid reputation in the adoption field. They are known for the highest level of personal service, support for clients and kindness and compassion for all those going through the process of adoption. They came together to create an adoption agency to provide hope and a fresh start to all families they work with. To better lives. To make a change in the world of adoption. To educate the community. To be involved. To make a difference.
Services and information
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
You must meet minimum requirements to provide foster care in Pennsylvania. Foster parents for children in need must:
- Be a minimum of 21 years old
- Pass a criminal background check with fingerprinting
- Have time and energy to devote to fostering
- Live in a safe and healthy environment
- Prove good health through a medical examination/physical
- Maintain financial stability
- Clear all home safety requirements
- Complete required pre-service training hours
- Finish the Home Inspection
After fulfilling all requirements during the approval process, licensed foster parents can welcome a foster child into their home. To maintain a valid license, foster parents must also participate in ongoing training each year.
All adults who are living in homes with foster children in Pennsylvania must pass a required criminal background check and fingerprinting. This includes adult children who are family members living at home.
There are other, more detailed requirements for foster homes, such as having a flushing toilet and an operable phone. Prospective foster parents will learn more details during foster parent orientation.
Once you've decided to foster, you can contact a public or private foster agency or the Pennsylvania State Resource Family Association. Foster agencies screen and train prospective foster families and ensure applicants are good candidates for foster care.
Ratings and Reviews
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May 02, 2023
After a long and challenging search for an agency that we liked, we connected with Haven in late 2021, joined the FITT program in January, matched in April, and brought home our beautiful daughter in June 2022. From beginning to end, the staff at Haven were so helpful, supportive, patient, and compassionate. We witnessed the staff also being very supportive of our daughter's birth mother, not just leading up to the birth and placement but also afterward. And thanks to Haven's initial facilitation, we are fortunate to be in a lovely open adoption. Despite some hiccups along the way in our journey to adopt, Haven helped us navigate through them - legally and emotionally - and handled everything with professionalism and the highest ethical standards. We are so grateful to Haven for helping us complete our family.
Jul 29, 2022
Haven is an AMAZING agency! They do a great job of balancing the needs of potential expectant parents, birth families, and adoptive families.
Jun 06, 2022
I can't say enough good things about Haven Adoptions. Working with them over the past few years on our adoption was such a happy process and we are so appreciative of their professionalism, support, and friendship every step of the way. They are very upfront about the process and helped explain things (multiple times!) with patience and clarity. They helped us manage so much paperwork and kept us in the loop on every step happening in the background too. We received so much attention and support from Haven, and we know they were just as supportive and helpful to mom too. We can't thank the team at Haven enough for everything they've done for us and our baby.
Jun 06, 2022
We were so impressed with the wonderful people we worked with at Haven for our adoption home study and the thorough job they did. It was a great experience working with them and we would highly recommend them!
Jun 02, 2022
We can't say enough good about the quality of people who work here! From the beginning of our journey, Sarah and others were compassionate toward our story, attentive of our needs as well as the BirthParents, professional in handling the variety of things that came up in our process, and intentional about replying to us in a timely way. I'm particularly thankful for the sense of "family" I get from Haven and the way they equipped us in our journey, and I deeply respect and am thankful for the way they love Birth Mothers and know how to speak their language and care for them. Thankful for this agency!