The Barker Adoption Foundation

Domestic Program: Barker offers free, confidential, and unbiased counseling to individuals and couples who wish to explore making an adoption plan for their child, whether during pregnancy or while already parenting. Services are offered in both English and Spanish, in person or virtually, and include coordinating proper medical care, providing emotional support, resource referrals, and ongoing supportive services regardless of the decision made. Barker serves individuals and couples who wish to adopt infants domestically. Barker provides education, home studies, matching, placement, and post-placement supervision. Services are provided in a transparent and ethical manner, ensuring a child-centered approach.Barker has a cradle care program where its trained foster families provide nurturing temporary care for the baby while the birth parents take the time necessary to decide whether to parent or to place the child for adoption.

International Adoption Program: The Barker Adoption Foundation's International Adoption Program provides education, counseling, and comprehensive adoption services to families seeking to adopt children from other countries that allow US families to adopt internationally. While international adoption has decreased globally, Barker continues to support families who pursue international placements through accredited partners and provides ongoing training and post-placement supervision. The program also assists families with intercountry adoption finalizations and immigration processes. Barker ensures all international placements comply with The Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption, U.S. and foreign law, and ethical best practices.

Project Wait No Longer ("PWNL"): Project Wait No Longer is Barker's older child adoption program focused on placing children from U.S. foster care-typically older children, sibling groups, and children with complex needs-with permanent, loving families. PWNL provides prospective adoptive parents with intensive training, home study assessments, matching and placement services, and ongoing support. The program works closely with public child welfare agencies and seeks to reduce the number of children waiting for adoption by recruiting and preparing families who are committed to meeting their needs.