Adoption Resources

COUNSELING

Children’s Service Society of Utah provides individual and family counseling to anyone touched by adoption. We have professional and personal experience in post-adoption therapy with transracial and international adoptions, special needs adoption, kinship adoptions, foster care adoptions, older child adoptions, open adoptions, and infant adoptions. We also have expertise in attachment issues, trauma histories, and birthparent advocacy and support.

  • The fee is $80 an hour (sliding scale fee available upon need for birthparents)
  • We are located at 655 East 4500 South, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84107
  • Call 801-326-4391 or email tara@cssutah.org for more information.

BOOKS


SUPPORT GROUPS

Adoptee Support Group

Children’s Service Society’s Free Adult Adoptee Support Group

655 East 4500 South, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84107

Call 801-326-4408 or email tara@cssutah.org to sign up

Teen Adoptee Support Group

Children’s Service Society’s Free Teen Adoptee Support Group, ages 13-18

655 East 4500 South, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84107

Call 801-326-4408 or email tara@cssutah.org to sign up

Adoptive Family Support Group

Children’s Service Society’s Free Adoptive Family Support Group

655 East 4500 South, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84107

Call 801-326-4408 or email tara@cssutah.org for more information

Birthmother Support Group

United for Adoption Birth Parent Support Group

655 East 4500 South, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84107

Call 801-326-4408 or email tara@cssutah.org for more information

Infertility Support Groups

Find an Infertility Support Group


ONLINE RESOURCES

Adoption:

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Foster Care:

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Infertility:

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Supporting Caregivers in Helping Children Who Have Experienced Trauma and/or Maltreatment:

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CSS is a proud member of the American Adoption Congress, United for Adoption, the National Council for Adoption, the Utah Adoption Council, and the North American Council on Adoptable Children.

 

Know an expectant parent or birth parent?  We offer free options counseling.  We can help with private, independent, and agency adoptions.  Call us at 801-656-8527.  Email at admin@cssutah.org.