Spence-Chapin provides therapy and counseling services to help individuals, couples, children, and families navigate life’s challenges. We also offer post-adoption support and programs for Adopted Persons of all ages and Birth & Adoptive Families.
Have any questions? Contact us at [email protected].
Spence-Chapin, with over a century of adoption expertise, has connected more than 20,000 children with loving, permanent families. We offer a Domestic Adoption Program, International Adoption Program, Special Needs Adoption Program, Host-to-Adopt Program, and more.
We support Birth Parents at every stage of their journey—from counseling and guidance for expectant parents considering adoption, to support groups and lifelong care for those who have made an adoption plan. Our Birth Parent services offer community, compassion, and connection.
Spence-Chapin provides required home study services for families pursuing domestic, international, or relative adoption. Our team offers personalized guidance to help families feel prepared and supported throughout the home study process in New York, New Jersey, and Arizona.
Join our community of individuals, children, and families connected to adoption! With children’s playgroups, identity workshops, mentorship, and support groups, our team of dedicated professionals is there to help guide you at every life stage and connect you to a supportive community.
Spence-Chapin hosts a full calendar of in-person events to bring our community together in support of our services. From golf outings, Broadway nights, book signings, and beyond, these gatherings offer meaningful ways to connect, get involved, and help make our work possible.
Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children maintains thousands of records from its 110+ year history. Spence-Chapin also acts as a repository for records for Louise Wise Services and Talbot Perkins. We assist clients who are unsure through which agency their adoption was planned.
Our counselors create a nonjudgmental space for individuals, couples, children, and families to feel supported while working through challenges. We tailor our approach to meet your needs, providing a blend of behavioral and relational therapy to best support you and create positive change.
Spence-Chapin is committed to the care and support of vulnerable children, women, and families around the world. Through domestic and international impact programs, we strengthen communities, provide lasting solutions, and help every child feel safe and cherished.
We believe in the importance of working alongside other professionals who support children and families. Through our trainings, we share our adoption knowledge and current best practices, helping to strengthen services and support more informed, thoughtful care for families.
Elizabeth L. Smith, LMSW (she/her) is a compassionate, trauma-informed, and adoption-competent therapist. In her Adoptee Support Sessions, she provides non-clinical support services to adopted people. Her clinical training, narrative work, and living experience as an adopted person inform her perspective and practice. Elizabeth possesses deep awareness, empathy, and understanding of the shifting complexities of adoption, reunion, search, and the importance of being together in community.
Waiting Children Profiles
Thank you for your interest in adopting through Spence-Chapin! We are able to share the profiles of children who are considered to be the most in need and are waiting internationally to be matched with an adoptive family. The children featured on this page have been waiting for the longest to find families and consist of children who are older, part of a sibling group, or children with a diagnosed medical condition. In order to respect the privacy of these children, this page has been password protected.
Spence-Chapin takes the privacy rights of the children that we are seeking to place very seriously, and share the profile with you under the following conditions:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PASSWORD ACCESS
That you acknowledge and understand that
1. Misuse of the content, and/or linking to any sites that reflect practices that involve the sale, abduction, exploitation, or trafficking of children is strictly prohibited.
2. You have been given limited access to confidential information in the form of images that you will not disclose to any person or in any manner that is inconsistent with applicable policies and procedures of Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children.
3. The confidentiality obligation shall continue indefinitely, including at all times after my association with Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children.
4. You are not permitted to release, copy, distribute, or sell any of these images to third parties in any form.
5. Impermissible disclosure of the images may result in legal actions being taken against you, by or on behalf of that person.
6. You are doing this freely, voluntarily and with a full understanding of what you are agreeing to by entering/accessing this blog.
7. Thank you for your interest in providing a loving home for a waiting child! We look forward to connecting with you soon to continue discussing adoption paths at Spence-Chapin. We hope that you like us on Facebook, follow us on twitter, and keep up with our families through our adoption blog!
Warm regards,
The Adoption Team at Spence-Chapin
Phone: 212-400-8150
Email: [email protected]
