Hope Embraced Adoption Agency
We are a licensed adoption agency in South Carolina, certified to receive children for placement in family homes with a view toward domestic adoption; to provide adoptive services and/or serve as a referral agency; consulting; and, to provide foster home and adoptive assessments, and training. It is our privilege to serve in this amazing, adventurous, miracle world of adoption! Hope Embraced helps with matching adoptive families with women facing pregnancy with circumstances that have led them to choose adoption. The agency also helps in situations of “Identified” or “Designated” adoptions. This is where a family comes to us with a birth mom they have already matched with on their own. Hope Embraced provides adoption support services of counseling, guidance, and the paperwork necessary for all parties. Hope Embraced also provides information for legal representation and resources for the home study and profile if needed. Hope Embraced does home studies for SC families doing domestic adoption, embryo adoptions, and/or surrogacy adoptions.
Services and information
- Adoption
Requirements to become a foster parent
Foster parents receive financial support in the form of a monthly board rate. Foster children also receive a clothing allowance, and their medical needs are covered through Medicaid.
In addition to the support you receive from your local DHS or foster care agency, there are other programs and resources available to parents.
The South Carolina Foster Parent Association offers free training to foster parents and kinship caregivers. You can find information on the latest laws and events as well. Plus, you gain access to valuable resources such as informational articles, contact information for professionals, etc.
The SC Foster Parent Association also allows foster families to connect with one another and share advice. You can find local association meetings in your area on their website.
The program Heartfelt Calling's mission is recruiting and supporting foster and adoptive families. Parents can learn more about the system, start the application process, register for orientation, find webinars, and more.
Foster parents that care for children in DSS custody receive reimbursement for related costs. These monthly foster care payments are meant to meet a child's basic care needs.
The most recent board rates are on the South Carolina Department of Social Services website. Payments may vary depending on a child's age and special needs.
Here are the basics;
Board Rates for Regular Foster Homes
Effective July 1, 2023
- Regular Foster Care - Age 0-5
- Monthly Rate - $644.00
- Daily Rate - $21.47
- Regular Foster Care - Age 6-12
- Monthly Rate - $752.00
- Daily Rate - $25.07
- Regular Foster Care - Age 13-20
- Monthly Rate - $794.00
- Daily Rate - $26.47
Ratings and Reviews
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Jan 03, 2019
I can't say enough good things about Hope Embraced. They helped us connect with our birth mother and our son. They prayed every step of the way, encouraged us, answered questions, listened to worries, calmed fears. I highly recommend Jeanna, Berneice and the whole team!
Nov 17, 2018
Adoption is such a wonderful thing.... Just think about it... If you are a Christian then you have been adopted by God. LOL. I actually adopted a child 14 years ago and can truly say that even though I have two biological children I see no difference. Each child is unique so the differences between All My Children, biological and adopted, they are different but my love for them is all the same. I am courage everyone who is thinking about children to consider adoption as a way of loving a child that needs a good home. Just think, rescuing one of these little ones, or sometimes a bigger one can change the world.
Oct 24, 2018
We cannot say enough good things about Hope Embraced and our entire experience. From the very beginning Jeanna worked tirelessly to put us at ease and let us know she was in our corner, wanting us to find our baby. We completed our home study and adoption profile through them as well as Jeanna helping to ensure our interstate adoption paperwork didn’t lag. We didn’t place through them and she still never quit. We consider ourselves lucky to have found them. We highly recommend Hope Embraced to anybody looking to grow their family through adoption!
Oct 22, 2018
We have had an amazing experience working with Hope Embraced. They were professional, knowledgeable and guided us through both of our adoptions. Jeanna and Mike were always available to answer questions and showed compassion,understanding. We truly felt their commitment to making sure we got our child. Both of our children were placed with us within a couple of months of being on Hope Embraced list. We feel grateful and truly blessed to Jeanna for bringing both of our children to us. We highly recommend using this agency.
Oct 18, 2018
I've had 2 great experiences with Jeanna in January 2016 & August 2018. You can contact me with questions at charisduffy@ hotmail for more info. Quick placement, fair fees, upfront communication, and the highest levels of integrity, compassion, and sensitivity. Jeanna sent me about 2-5 cases/opportunities per month until we matched. She was always available to me and extremely supportive in difficult circumstances.
In response to negative views posted here: No one can control whether or not a birth mother selects you, they can only present the opportunities. The wait times vary for every family and to see a review where someone signed up in March 2018 and posted an angry review 5 months later in August 2018 just doesn't make sense to me. It is very common to wait 6 months to over a year for placement - that is not "unethical" at all in the world of adoption. Also, the complaint about Hope Embraced's fee of $2,800 shows a lack of experience in the adoption industry. That is the lowest consultant fee I have ever seen. Should you place through this agency they are also some of the lowest fees that I have seen in 10 years of adoption advocacy and in my 4 adoptions. Consider how illogical the complaints are before you believe them.