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Partnering with perinatal, birth, and maternal healthcare providers to empower expectant mothers through comprehensive care and resources.

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Why Partner with Spence-Chapin?

For decades, Spence-Chapin has been a trusted partner to professionals in perinatal, birth, maternal health, and child welfare. With a broad reach across New York, New Jersey, and Arizona, we collaborate with a wide network of professionals to support expectant women facing vulnerable situations or uncertainty about parenting. Our expertise in compassionate, unbiased care, and adoption services makes us a reliable resource for your practice.

We can connect you to a library of resources, offer customized trainings for your staff, and provide CEU opportunities on adoption and perinatal topics. We’re committed to supporting your clients 24/7, offering expert guidance, and coordinated care whenever they need it.

To learn more about referring a client to our services or to schedule a training, contact us today.

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Support for your clients

We understand the challenges you face when supporting clients through life-altering decisions. Whether you’re supporting expectant mothers or families at risk of losing a child to foster care, Spence-Chapin is here to provide expert guidance and resources they need. Our services include options counseling, family support services, and adoption resources. We are available 24/7 to support you and your clients, ensuring they receive the care necessary to make informed decisions and strengthen their families.

Training and workshops

Stay at the forefront of perinatal and maternal care with Spence-Chapin’s continuing education programs. Our interactive workshops, available both online and in-person, cover essential topics like Unbiased Options Counseling, Birth Parent Rights, and Modern Adoption Practices. We also offer customized training to meet the unique needs of your team.

Networking opportunities

Connect with a community of professionals dedicated to supporting families. Through our events and training sessions, you’ll have the opportunity to share insights, learn best practices, and grow your network of peers committed to empowering women and their families.

Resources for Professionals

We understand the challenges you face when supporting clients through life-altering decisions. Whether you’re supporting expectant mothers or families at risk of losing a child to foster care, Spence-Chapin is here to provide expert guidance and resources they need. Our services include options counseling, family support services, and adoption resources. We are available 24/7 to support you and your clients, ensuring they receive the care necessary to make informed decisions and strengthen their families.

Essential Resources

Empower your practice with key materials to support clients through every step of their journey. Download our FREE, multilingual brochures—including those for our Domestic Adoption Program, Birth & Expectant Parent Services (NY & NJ Partnerships), and Special Needs Adoption Program—to provide clear, unbiased information on adoption, and family support services.

Brochures are available in multiple languages, including Spanish, Mandarin, and English, to ensure your clients receive the guidance they need in the language they are most comfortable with.

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Elizabeth L. Smith

Mentorship Facilitator

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:

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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]

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